Reply #2: Democrats Delay Gonzales Testimony [View All]

[Joanne98]

Source: AP

Democrats Delay Gonzales Testimony

By LARA JAKES JORDAN
The Associated Press
Thursday, April 5, 2007; 7:19 PM

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats postponed on Thursday Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' first chance to testify in his own defense over the firings of eight federal prosecutors.

The decision to shelve next week's Senate Appropriations hearing frustrated the White House, which wants Gonzales to quickly give lawmakers his side of the story amid calls for his resignation.

But Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md, said the political firestorm should be resolved before Gonzales talks about the Justice Department's spending plan for next year.

"It would be very difficult in this environment to give the department's budget request the attention it deserves until the Senate has examined the department's leadership failures," said Mikulski, who heads the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that had planned to hear from Gonzales on April 12.




Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/05/AR2007040501772.html

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Poor Gonzo.. Nobody wants to hear him talk! YET! Let's wait until those TYC kids have a chance to say something!