[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 24010]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             THE CONFIRMATION HEARING FOR GOVERNOR LEAVITT

  Mr. INHOFE. It is my intention, Mr. President, to come down here and 
share something that happened last Tuesday that has never happened 
before in the history of this institution. I chair the Environment and 
Public Works Committee. We had a confirmation hearing for Governor 
Leavitt from Utah, a highly qualified nominee by the President to be 
administrator of the EPA. The Democrats boycotted the meeting. They 
obstructed the meeting just by boycotting it, not showing up. I am 
going to be talking later on today about that, but it is my intention 
now to talk about the subject the Senator from Utah and the Senator 
from Texas have before us, because it has such great ramifications to 
our Nation's security.

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