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Gonzales' hearing postponed
by campus shootings
Reuters
Tuesday April 17, 2007
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' much-anticipated appearance
before a congressional panel investigating the firing of federal
prosecutors was postponed on Monday in deference to the shooting
rampage at Virginia Tech university.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat,
announced that the hearing, which had been set for Tuesday, would
instead be held on Thursday.
Leahy said the shooting deaths of 33 people including a suspected
gunman at Virginia Tech was "a matter where our whole nation
is going to be grieving tomorrow, and many individual members of
both bodies (of Congress) will be joining in that grieving."
Leahy said he decided to postpone the hearing after conferring
with Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the panel's ranking Republican,
and Gonzales, whose Justice Department is helping investigate the
deadliest campus shooting rampage in U.S. history.
"The attorney general is anxious to testify. But out of respect
for the family members impacted by this horrific tragedy he will
defer to the chairman's judgment," a Justice Department spokeswoman
said.
The Judiciary Committee is looking into whether the dismissals
of eight of the nation's 93 U.S. attorneys last year, seven of them
in December, were politically motivated.
Gonzales has denied such charges, but admits that the matter was
mishandled.
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