4.12.2005
Senate Confirms Bush Judicial Nominee Crotty (Reuters.com)
By Thomas Ferraro
Monday, April 11, 2005
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paul Crotty, an attorney who has worked with top Democrats and Republicans, on Monday became the first of President Bush's 20 renominated judicial nominees to win Senate confirmation.
On a bipartisan vote of 95-0, the Republican-led Senate approved Crotty for a seat on the U.S. district court in the state of New York.
At the same time, Senate Democrats called on Bush to work with them to settle a battle over other judicial nominees that threatens to slow down the work of the Senate.
"Let us work together to find consensus judicial candidates," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, wrote in a letter to Bush.
Bush has sought Senate confirmation votes on all of his judicial nominees, including ones that Democrats have cast as unacceptable "right-wing extremists."
(More ... Politics News Article | Reuters.com) ¶ 19:31
Monday, April 11, 2005
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paul Crotty, an attorney who has worked with top Democrats and Republicans, on Monday became the first of President Bush's 20 renominated judicial nominees to win Senate confirmation.
On a bipartisan vote of 95-0, the Republican-led Senate approved Crotty for a seat on the U.S. district court in the state of New York.
At the same time, Senate Democrats called on Bush to work with them to settle a battle over other judicial nominees that threatens to slow down the work of the Senate.
"Let us work together to find consensus judicial candidates," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, wrote in a letter to Bush.
Bush has sought Senate confirmation votes on all of his judicial nominees, including ones that Democrats have cast as unacceptable "right-wing extremists."
(More ... Politics News Article | Reuters.com) ¶ 19:31
