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Tensions have been palpable on Capitol Hill since Bush’s two recent recess appointments of circuit-court judges. Democrats were further outraged when the president refused to appoint more than a dozen Democrats to government boards and commissions, inspiring Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., to threaten the administration with an unequivocal stall of all judicial nominations. “There has to be a reciprocal treatment of nominees,” Daschle said in a March statement. “It will be very, very difficult for us to move forward on nominations...
...Given the trend toward greater cross-registration and collaboration...the current lack of calendar coordination imposes unnecessary barriers, such as varying instructional start dates, examination periods, and spring recess dates,” the report says...
INSTALLED. WILLIAM PRYOR JR., 41, Alabama attorney general; as a U.S. appeals-court judge; by President Bush, despite opposition by Senate Democrats, who objected to Pryor's comments and writings on abortion and homosexuality. Bush's second recess appointment this year follows the promotion of Mississippi federal Judge Charles Pickering...
Although Rosenthal is reluctant to point to any one factor that could have caused the decrease, he said winter recess, reading and exam periods and the colder temperatures might have contributed to the November to January drop...
...move also undoubtedly frees up Chu for more offense on the wing, as well as eases the pressure on her wrist. Chu suffered the injury during play at the U.S. National Camp over winter recess and it had previously hindered her performance while she played through the pain...