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5-13-2009 4:52 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/32592fa7-963a-47a7-ae2d-1b70d00f40ac/94AC830E-85AE-4C88-97CD-6BE8BDE0D6C3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/senate-republicans-block-no-2-interior-nominee/?nl=pol&emc=pola1" href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/senate-republicans-block-no-2-interior-nominee/?nl=pol&emc=pola1" style="font-size: 11px;">thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/senate-republicans-block-no-2-interior-nominee/?nl=pol&emc=pola1"><H2 class="entry-title">Senate Republicans Block No. 2 Interior Nominee</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/senate-republicans-block-no-2-interior-nominee/?nl=pol&emc=pola1"><P> For the first time, Senate Republicans blocked a nominee of the Obama administration, mounting a filibuster against the appointment of <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/03/13/13greenwire-mccain-blasts-deputy-secretary-nominee-over-lo-10120.html?scp=4&sq=david%20hayes%20interior&st=Search">David Hayes </A>to be deputy secretary of the Interior Department in a dispute over oil and gas leases in Utah.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/senate-republicans-block-no-2-interior-nominee/?nl=pol&emc=pola1"><P>Democrats said Mr. Hayes had nothing to do with the oil leasing decision and that Republicans were impeding Democratic efforts to make changes at the Interior Department, where some officials in the oil leasing branch were accused of corruption during the Bush administration.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/senate-republicans-block-no-2-interior-nominee/?nl=pol&emc=pola1"><P>“This was a tired vote of bitter obstructionism,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a statement issued after the vote. “It may be uncomfortable for some to watch us have to clean up mess after mess – from corruption to lawbreaking – that is the previous administration’s legacy at Interior, but to cast a vote against such a qualified person is the height of cynicism.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/94AC830E-85AE-4C88-97CD-6BE8BDE0D6C3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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