Senate panel approves Comey to be next FBI director

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

By Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON | Thu Jul 18, 2013 11:03am EDT

(Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday unanimously approved President Barack Obama's nomination of James Comey, an independent-minded Republican and former deputy U.S. attorney general, as director of the FBI.

The nomination now goes to the full Senate, which is expected to confirm Comey as early as next week to replace Robert Mueller, who has led the bureau since shortly before the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

All eight committee Republicans joined the panel's 10 Democrats in sending the nomination to the full Senate.

The committee's vote came two days after an agreement was reached to settle Democratic complaints that Republicans had unfairly delayed a number of other nominees.

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[Plucketeer]

1. Whoopee

Here's something to ponder..... How attrociously bad would a Republican nominee have to be to NOT get whole-hearted approval from the Rethugs??? Does such a person even exist? Yeah, this is a big win for the president.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Now that the election is over...

Is Oboma ready to switch parties or what?

[RC]

4. +10

I'm thinking he already did - a long time ago.

[forestpath]

7. +1000

[lark]

3. Not clapping for this one.

Don't really know anything about him, so also not complaining that much. However, since he's a Republican, I'm not really that happy about the president's choice. Still, hoping for the best, given that he's now got the job .

[Autumn]

5. yay

[msongs]

6. it's the obama jobs program at last....for bush republican retreads lol nt

[forestpath]

8. It feels like Bush's 4th term to me.

[bigwillq]

9. When did Obama change his last name to Bush?