From Deseret News archives:
Leavitt breezes through hearing
"As a former governor, he knows how HHS works and doesn't work," said Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., the ranking Democrat on the committee. "Everyone who knows him respects his intelligence, his high energy and his experience as a manager and problem solver."
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a member of the committee usually saddled with leadership responsibilities, showed up with words of praise and encouragement, pledging the Senate will work with the White House to "reach meaningful solutions to many of the challenges before us, securing a freer, safer and healthier future for generations of Americans to come."
In all, the two-hour hearing breezed through with scarcely a grumble, let alone a tough question.
The Finance Committee is, as Hatch puts it, "where the money is," and senators are going to want to know how Leavitt intends to spend or where he is willing to cut the $580 billion HHS budget.
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Kennedy told Hatch before the hearing started that Democrats would not oppose the nomination. But Hatch appeared gratified by the praise from Kennedy and Sen. Christopher Dodd, a liberal Connecticut Democrat married to a Utahn who calls himself Utah's third senator.
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