Reply #85: CBS News: Democrats Won't Reschedule Gonzales

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Democrats Won't Reschedule Gonzales
Senate Democrats Reject White House Push To Move Up Date For Attorney General's Testimony
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/01/ap/politics/main2635562.shtml

Associated Press writers Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Lara Jakes Jordan contributed to this story.

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The committee chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy, said Gonzales had been offered earlier dates but turned them down. It was Gonzales who chose April 17, said Leahy, D-Vt., and that date will not change now because "everybody has set their schedule according to that."

"It's the date that the attorney general originally picked. It's the date the hearing will take place," Leahy said.

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