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...vote on the Senate floor was put on hold by Democrats led by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) according to a report in the Wall Street Journal...
Democrats opposing Graham’s confirmation shared many of Public Citizens’ concerns during Senate floor debate. Durbin called the corporate sponsors of HCRA “a veritable list of who’s who of industrial sponsors...
...These corporate clients came to Professor Graham not to find ways to increase regulation on their businesses, but just for the opposite, so that he can provide through his center a scientific basis for resisting government regulation in the areas of public health and the environment,” Durbin said...
...Durbin and others said Graham held a bias against regulation of any sort...
...Durbin explained during his floor speech that he had rarely acted to oppose a President’s nominee...