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Senate To Hold Confidence Vote On Gonzales
Top GOP Senator To Vote With Democrats
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he is not paying much attention to a test vote in the Senate Monday for a no-confidence resolution against him.
Speaking in Miami, Gonzales said he will instead be "focusing on what the American people expect of the attorney general."
The vote is scheduled to be held at 5:30 p.m. EDT Monday after one hour of debate.
There are some in Congress who said Gonzales hasn't done that nearly enough, and the actual resolution said the Senate senses he "no longer holds the confidence of the Senate and of the American people."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he thinks the president will pay little attention to the debate or the test vote.
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he will vote for a no-confidence resolution against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Specter, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he shares the concern of other Republicans that the resolution is an effort by Democrats to embarrass President George W. Bush.
But Specter has long said that Gonzales showed poor leadership on a host of issues, including the firings of eight federal prosecutors.
Despite Specter's decision and calls by other Senate Republicans for Gonzales to resign, no one has been predicting that the symbolic no-confidence resolution will survive even today's test vote.
Bush said earlier Monday that Gonzales still has his support and that he considers the no-confidence resolution to be "political."
At a news conference Monday in Bulgaria, the president said the vote won't determine who serves in his government.
"I'll make the determination as to whether he's effective," Bush said.
White House spokesman Tony Snow, appearing on "Fox News Sunday," brushed off the impending vote as "purely symbolic."
No one is predicting that the symbolic no-confidence resolution will survive even a test vote. But not many of the Senate's 100 members are rushing to defend Gonzales.
What goodwill remained after the firings of eight federal prosecutors seemed to fade after the attorney general told a Senate committee dozens of times he could not recall key details.
The resolution itself is only one sentence: "It is the sense of the Senate that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales no longer holds the confidence of the Senate and of the American people."
Top GOP Senator To Vote With Democrats
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he is not paying much attention to a test vote in the Senate Monday for a no-confidence resolution against him.
Speaking in Miami, Gonzales said he will instead be "focusing on what the American people expect of the attorney general."
The vote is scheduled to be held at 5:30 p.m. EDT Monday after one hour of debate.
There are some in Congress who said Gonzales hasn't done that nearly enough, and the actual resolution said the Senate senses he "no longer holds the confidence of the Senate and of the American people."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he thinks the president will pay little attention to the debate or the test vote.
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he will vote for a no-confidence resolution against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Specter, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he shares the concern of other Republicans that the resolution is an effort by Democrats to embarrass President George W. Bush.
But Specter has long said that Gonzales showed poor leadership on a host of issues, including the firings of eight federal prosecutors.
Despite Specter's decision and calls by other Senate Republicans for Gonzales to resign, no one has been predicting that the symbolic no-confidence resolution will survive even today's test vote.
Bush said earlier Monday that Gonzales still has his support and that he considers the no-confidence resolution to be "political."
At a news conference Monday in Bulgaria, the president said the vote won't determine who serves in his government.
"I'll make the determination as to whether he's effective," Bush said.
White House spokesman Tony Snow, appearing on "Fox News Sunday," brushed off the impending vote as "purely symbolic."
No one is predicting that the symbolic no-confidence resolution will survive even a test vote. But not many of the Senate's 100 members are rushing to defend Gonzales.
What goodwill remained after the firings of eight federal prosecutors seemed to fade after the attorney general told a Senate committee dozens of times he could not recall key details.
The resolution itself is only one sentence: "It is the sense of the Senate that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales no longer holds the confidence of the Senate and of the American people."
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