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BREAKING: Bush names Swift Boat funder as ambassador (FOX)

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Edited on Wed Apr-04-07 04:59 PM by babylonsister

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/04/breaking-bush-names-swift-boat-funder-as-ambassador/

BREAKING: Bush names Swift Boat funder as ambassador.

AP reports:

“President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox’s nomination. …

Recognizing Fox did not have the votes to obtain Senate confirmation, Bush withdrew the nomination last month. On Wednesday, with Congress out of town for a spring break, the president used his power to make recess appointments to put Fox in the job without Senate confirmation.

This means Fox can remain ambassador until the end of the next session of Congress, effectively through the end of the Bush presidency.”

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