House Democrat on Gonzales: The country cannot wait

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House Democrat on Gonzales: The country cannot wait
Michael Roston
Published: Monday May 21, 2007

A Democratic Congressman who is pushing for a vote of no confidence against the Attorney General said in a late afternoon press conference that Alberto Gonzales had 'low regard' for the US Attorneys working for the Justice Department, and that the country cannot wait for the end of the Bush administration to bring his tenure to a close.

"I was most disturbed in particular that the Attorney General testified that he saw nothing improper about firing a good US Attorney for no reason other than to make way for a political appointee whose resume the Justice Department or White House wanted to improve. That tells me he has a very low regard for the Attorneys in his charge," said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Capitol Hill on Monday.

He added, "We do not believe that his continued tenure in the Department of Justice is in the best interests of that Department, and the country cannot wait and drift for another one and half years of his leadership at the helm."

Schiff gave the press conference with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), a co-sponsor of the no confidence motion that Schiff formally filed on Monday. Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL), who has led the sponsorship of the motion with Schiff, was not available.

Rep. Wasserman Schultz compared Gonzales' behavior with President Richard Nixon's 'Saturday Night Massacre' in order to accuse Gonzales of not being trustworthy in carrying out the law.

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