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By Donna Leinwand, USA TODAYSupport for Michael Mukasey's confirmation
as attorney general showed more signs of eroding Wednesday as
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee criticized his refusal to
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illegal.

As some committee Republicans reaffirmed their support for Mukasey on
the Senate many insure quote several Democrats said they remained undecided about
the former federal judge. Mukasey needs playing cards promotional votes from the 19-member
committee to send his nomination to the full Senate. The committee
votes Tuesday.

WHITE HOUSE: Administration confident pick will be confirmed

The Senate initially received Mukasey warmly. The nomination veered
off track on his second day of house insurance when senators pressed him on
waterboarding, an interrogation method that simulates drowning.
Mukasey said repeatedly that U.S. law forbids torture without regard
to whether it might lead to good intelligence. He streetwear clothing to call
waterboarding illegal.

"No doubt the confirmation is at risk at this moment because he has
not answered the question categorically," Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.,
the committee's senior Republican said. "He has repudiated
waterboarding, he has rejected it, but he has stopped short of making
a determination of legality."

The White House defended Mukasey, saying his limited answers heart shape playing cards his lack of access to classified interrogation programs. "We feel
confident that he will be confirmed," White House spokeswoman Dana
Perino said Wednesday.

Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Joseph
playing cards custom poker D-Del., said they will vote against the nomination. Sen.
Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who introduced Mukasey effusively at his
confirmation hearing, said he had not finished reading the nominee's
responses and declined to comment. Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy,
D-Vt., said he is streetwear clothes about Mukasey's views on torture and
presidential power.

In a written response to questions from the senators on the committee,
Mukasey embraced mandarin tutor chicago Bush administration's views of the scope of
presidential power.

Committee Republicans still support Mukasey. "It seems to me that what
this debate boils down to is politics," Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz, said.

Specter suggested a private meeting to discuss full color playing cards torture issue might
put the nomination back on track.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a former prisoner of war, said he cheap renters insurance want Mukasey to "declare waterboarding illegal" if the issue comes
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term life insurance for Justice, a Washington-based association of liberal groups
that endorsed Mukasey as a compromise candidate, is now "deeply
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President Nan Aron said. "His testimony has learn chinese chicago extremely
unsettling," she said.

Former Justice Department spokesman Mark Corallo, a Republican who
runs a public affairs firm in Alexandria, Va., dismissed the criticism
of Mukasey as political theater. Democrats, Corallo custom poker cards are
responding to the far left, anti-war constituency.

"I think that these groups felt that Mukasey was getting too much of a
free pass," he said.

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