Greedy Trial Lawyer
Promise To Resign Or Else
Category: News Defused
In the waning days of the Bush administration Congress has finally started to exercise its clout on presidential appointments. The Senators are extracting resignation promises from nominees. No more consents for unprincipled hacks.
President Bush's nominee for surgeon general, James Holsinger, on Thursday during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing said he is dedicated to science and would resign if the Bush administration officials pressured him to skew his recommendations for ideological reasons, the Los Angeles Times reports (Alonso-Zaldivar, Los Angeles Times, 7/13).
Why not, instead, a promise to do the damn job as the nominee knows it should be done even in the face of pressure to skew recommendations? That would be unique.
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