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TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson is keeping an eye on Interior Secretary-designate Gale Norton's confirmation hearings...
...What was the tenor of Norton's first day of hearings...
...Thompson: Surprisingly, no. Many of the most inflammatory issues raised by environmentalists were brought up and easily batted away. Norton even seems to believe in global warming, although she says she's unclear as to what the cause is and what impacts it might have...
...What's considered Norton's biggest stumbling block...
...That's how I feel when I contemplate, on the one hand, the unclean, unsatisfactory records of Gale Norton and John Ashcroft, and on the other hand, the baying politburo of correctness (NOW and the People for the American Way, and all the rest) that is arrayed against Norton and Ashcroft, ready to throw acid in their faces. What a collection altogether...