Leahy in 2008: For Good of American People, Get Nominees Confirmed for Inauguration

‘I think for the good of American people it would be very, very helpful if we could have a number of the key people’

LEAHY: "I think for the good of the American people, it would be very, very helpful if we could have a number of the key people in there too. As I said, we had to get rid of them, virtually everybody at the top of the Justice Department. Those are in there now because a lot of good people replaced them. They're basically in a caretaker mode. Let's see if we can number the key DOJ people who have to be nominated. I would like, if it can be worked, and I don't if it can, but if it could be my idea would be to go, 'Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,' with them so the American people get a package as a whole and I'd like to do all that, of course, before the inauguration."

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