Judiciary Committee votes 11-8 to forward Michael Mukasey to full Senate VIDEO

Senate Judiciary Committee Executive Business Meeting on A.G. Nominee Mukasey FULL STREAMING VIDEO. The Senate Judiciary Committee holds an executive business meeting to consider the nomination of Michael Mukasey as U.S. Attorney General. Mukasey must receive ten votes from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination to advance to the full Senate with a favorable recommendation. 11/6/2007: WASHINGTON, DC: 1 hr. 45 min.

President Bush Pleased by Vote to Forward Nomination of Judge Mukasey to Full Senate

We appreciate the vote of senators on the Judiciary Committee to forward the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey to the full Senate. Judge Mukasey has clearly demonstrated that he will be an exceptional Attorney General at this critical time.

The Justice Department is crucial to both our law enforcement and national security missions, and so we look forward to a vote in the full Senate to confirm Judge Mukasey, allowing us to move to filling the senior leadership positions at the Justice Department.

For Immediate Release, Office of the Press Secretary, November 6, 2007

US Senate Committee Forwards Bush's Attorney General Nominee to Full Senate
By VOA News 06 November 2007

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to forward President Bush's nominee for attorney general to the full Senate.

The panel advanced the nomination of Michael Mukasey Tuesday by a vote of 11 - 8. He is expected to win confirmation in the Senate.

The White House issued a statement expressing appreciation for the Senate Judiciary Committee's vote on Mukasey, and that it looks forward to the full Senate vote. The statement said Mukasey has demonstrated he will be an exceptional attorney general at a critical time.

Majority Democrats on the committee had expressed concern about the nomination, after Mukasey refused to characterize as torture the practice of waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning.

But key Democratic Senators Charles Schumer of New York and Dianne Feinstein of California said Friday they would vote for Mukasey after receiving assurances that he would enforce a law against waterboarding if one were enacted by Congress.

Waterboarding is widely condemned as torture by human rights groups and has been prosecuted by the United States as a war crime.

The U.S. military has banned the practice, but human rights groups say the CIA has used it in recent years.

During hearings last month, Mukasey said answering questions about waterboarding might put the careers or freedom of those who might be using the technique at risk. VOA News - Voice of America Homepage

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Arlen Specter, RANKING MEMBER, R-PENNSYLVANIA, Orrin G. Hatch, R-UTAH, Charles E. Grassley, R-IOWA, Dianne Feinstein, D-CALIFORNIA, Jon Kyl, R-ARIZONA, Jeff Sessions, R-ALABAMA Charles E. Schumer, D-NEW YORK Lindsey Graham, R-SOUTH CAROLINA, John Cornyn, R-TEXAS, Sam Brownback, R-KANSAS, Tom Coburn, R-OKLAHOMA	Patrick J. Leahy, CHAIRMAN, D-VERMONT, Edward M. Kennedy, D-MASSACHUSETTS Joseph R. Biden, Jr. D-DELAWARE, Herb Kohl, D-WISCONSIN, Russell D. Feingold, D-WISCONSIN, Richard J. Durbin, D-ILLINOIS, Benjamin L. Cardin, D-MARYLAND, Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RHODE ISLAND

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