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Governor Mike Leavitt confirmed as EPA head.(News)

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WASHINGTON, DC--Utah Governor Mike Leavitt (R) was confirmed October 28 by an 88-8 vote of the U.S. Senate to be the next Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He succeeds Christine Todd Whitman, who resigned in June 2003.

The confirmation vote ended a 56 days of partisan debate on the administration's environmental record and attacks on Leavitt's record in Utah. A threatened Democratic filibuster never materialized. Senator James M. Jeffords, the Vermont independent, took pains to point out that the confirmation was not an ...

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