NATION : Panel Votes for Hills Confirmation
The Senate Finance Committee voted 18 to 0 today to recommend confirmation of attorney Carla Hills as U.S. trade representative, a job she said she would use to open global markets “with a crowbar if necessary.”
“You have done well and you have answered with more specifics than I have normally heard from a person being confirmed,” Committee Chairman Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tex.) told Hills as the panel prepared to vote. “They usually fudge their answers more.” Hills, a Californian, served in the Ford Administration as secretary of housing and urban development.
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