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Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 16:40:18 -0700
From: "Jeffrey St. Clair" <sitka@home.com>
To: cp <counterpunch-list@counterpunch.org>,
Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: Dems. Gagged: No MS Questions for Anti-Trust Nominee
AP Business
Antitrust Nominee Gets No Questions
by JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The lawyer chosen to lead the Justice
Department division trying to break up Microsoft Corp. got
through a Senate nomination hearing Wednesday without having
to answer a single question about the lawsuit.
Charles A. James, a veteran lawyer with a reputation for
conservatism on antitrust matters, has been nominated by
President Bush to lead the Justice Department's antitrust
division. During his nomination hearing, James did not field
a single major question from the Senate Judiciary Committee
about the Microsoft case, the biggest antitrust case left
over from the Clinton administration.
''We've all raised it behind the scenes,'' Senate Judiciary
Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah said after the hearing. ''We've
got to let the courts decide that matter.''
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