Tuesday, February 9, 2010
9:12 AM
Shelby holds lifted
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby has lifted his hold on some 70 presidential nominations.
The office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said yesterday the hold applied to all appointments pending on the executive calendar. That included the nominations of Louis Butler and William Conley to the federal bench in Madison and Winslow Sargeant to a post with the Small Business Administration.
But in a statement announcing Shelby, R-Ala., was lifting the hold, a spokesman insisted the move did not apply to the nominations of uniform military personnel, federal judges or Treasury nominees.
Shelby issued the hold Friday to put pressure on the Obama administration over two projects affecting his home state.
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