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10 of 189 DOCUMENTS The Associated Press February 3, 2005, Thursday, BC cycle

The Senate's 60-36 vote to confirm Gonzales as attorney general
BYLINE: By The Associated Press SECTION: Washington Dateline LENGTH: 470 words

The 60-36 roll call by which the Senate voted to confirm Alberto Gonzales as attorney general. On this vote, a "yes" vote was a vote to confirm Gonzales and a "no" vote was a vote not to confirm him. Voting "yes" were 6 Democrats and 54 Republicans. Voting "no" were 35 Democrats and one independent. Alabama Sessions (R) Yes; Shelby (R) Yes. Alaska Murkowski (R) Yes; Stevens (R) Yes. Arizona Kyl (R) Yes; McCain (R) Yes. Arkansas Lincoln (D) No; Pryor (D) Yes. California Boxer (D) No; Feinstein (D) No. Colorado Allard (R) Yes; Salazar (D) Yes. Connecticut Dodd (D) No; Lieberman (D) Yes.

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Delaware Biden (D) No; Carper (D) No. Florida Martinez (R) Yes; Nelson (D) Yes. Georgia Chambliss (R) Yes; Isakson (R) Yes. Hawaii Akaka (D) No; Inouye (D) Not Voting. Idaho Craig (R) Yes; Crapo (R) Yes. Illinois Durbin (D) No; Obama (D) No. Indiana Bayh (D) No; Lugar (R) Yes. Iowa Grassley (R) Yes; Harkin (D) No. Kansas Brownback (R) Yes; Roberts (R) Yes. Kentucky Bunning (R) Yes; McConnell (R) Yes. Louisiana Landrieu (D) Yes; Vitter (R) Yes. Maine Collins (R) Yes; Snowe (R) Yes. Maryland Mikulski (D) No; Sarbanes (D) No. Massachusetts Kennedy (D) No; Kerry (D) No.

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Michigan Levin (D) No; Stabenow (D) No. Minnesota Coleman (R) Yes; Dayton (D) No. Mississippi Cochran (R) Yes; Lott (R) Yes. Missouri Bond (R) Yes; Talent (R) Yes. Montana Baucus (D) Not Voting; Burns (R) Not Voting. Nebraska Hagel (R) Yes; Nelson (D) Yes. Nevada Ensign (R) Yes; Reid (D) No. New Hampshire Gregg (R) Yes; Sununu (R) Yes. New Jersey Corzine (D) No; Lautenberg (D) No. New Mexico Bingaman (D) No; Domenici (R) Yes. New York Clinton (D) No; Schumer (D) No. North Carolina Burr (R) Yes; Dole (R) Yes. North Dakota Conrad (D) Not Voting; Dorgan (D) No. Ohio DeWine (R) Yes; Voinovich (R) Yes.

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Oklahoma Coburn (R) Yes; Inhofe (R) Yes. Oregon Smith (R) Yes; Wyden (D) No. Pennsylvania Santorum (R) Yes; Specter (R) Yes. Rhode Island Chafee (R) Yes; Reed (D) No. South Carolina DeMint (R) Yes; Graham (R) Yes. South Dakota Johnson (D) No; Thune (R) Yes. Tennessee Alexander (R) Yes; Frist (R) Yes. Texas Cornyn (R) Yes; Hutchison (R) Yes. Utah Bennett (R) Yes; Hatch (R) Yes. Vermont Jeffords (I) No; Leahy (D) No. Virginia Allen (R) Yes; Warner (R) Yes. Washington Cantwell (D) No; Murray (D) No. West Virginia Byrd (D) No; Rockefeller (D) No. Wisconsin Feingold (D) No; Kohl (D) No.

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Wyoming Enzi (R) Yes; Thomas (R) Yes.

LOAD-DATE: February 4, 2005 LANGUAGE: ENGLISH Copyright 2005 Associated Press All Rights Reserved

EXHIBIT 2

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales Resigns - The New York Times - Politics - Washington - New York Times

August 27, 2007

Embattled Attorney General Resigns
By STEVEN LEE MYERS and PHILIP SHENON

WACO, Tex., Aug. 27 — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, announced his resignation in Washington today, declaring that he had “lived the American dream” by being able to lead the Justice Department. Mr. Gonzales, who had rebuffed calls for his resignation for months, submitted it to President Bush by telephone on Friday, a senior administration official said. There had been rumblings over the weekend that Mr. Gonzales’s departure was imminent, although the White House sought to quell the rumors. Mr. Gonzales appeared cheerful and composed when he announced that he was stepping down effective Sept. 17. His very worst days on the job were “better than my father’s best days,” he said, alluding to his family’s hardscrabble past. “Thank you, and God bless America,” Mr. Gonzales said, exiting without responding to questions. In Waco, President Bush said he had accepted the resignation reluctantly. He praised his old friend as “a man of integrity, decency and principle” and complained of the “months of unfair treatment” that preceded the resignation.
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Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales Resigns - The New York Times - Politics - Washington - New York Times

“It’s sad,” Mr. Bush said, asserting that Mr. Gonzales’s name had been “dragged through the mud for political reasons.” The president said the solicitor general, Paul D. Clement, would serve as acting attorney general until a permanent replacement was chosen. Mr. Bush has not yet chosen a replacement but will not leave the position open long, the senior administration official said early this morning. Among those being mentioned as a possible successor were Michael Chertoff, the secretary of homeland security who is a former federal prosecutor, assistant attorney general and federal judge; Christopher Cox, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission; and Larry D. Thompson, a former deputy attorney general who is now senior vice president and general counsel of PepsiCo Inc. Mr. Bush repeatedly stood by Mr. Gonzales, an old friend and colleague from Texas, even as Mr. Gonzales faced increasing scrutiny for his leadership of the Justice Department over issues including his role in the dismissals of nine United States attorneys late last year and whether he testified truthfully about the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. Earlier this month, at a news conference, Mr. Bush dismissed accusations that Mr. Gonzales had stonewalled or misled a Congressional inquiry. “We’re watching a political exercise,” Mr. Bush said. “I mean, this is a man who has testified, he’s sent thousands of papers up there. There’s no proof of wrong.” But Democrats cheered Mr. Gonzales’s departure. “Alberto Gonzales was never the right man for this job,” said Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader. “He lacked independence, he lacked judgment, and he lacked the spine to say ‘no’ to Karl Rove.”

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Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales Resigns - The New York Times - Politics - Washington - New York Times

Senator Charles E. Schumer, the New York Democrat who sits on the Judiciary Committee and has been calling for Mr. Gonzales’s resignation for months, said this morning: “It has been a long and difficult struggle, but at last the attorney general has done the right thing and stepped down. For the previous six months, the Justice Department has been virtually nonfunctional, and desperately needs new leadership.” Senator Schumer said that “Democrats will not obstruct or impede a nominee who we are confident will put the rule of law above political considerations.” Another Democrat on the Judiciary Committee who has been highly critical of Mr. Gonzales, Senator Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin, said the next attorney general must be a person whose first loyalty is “to the law, not the president.” But a Republican senator who has known Mr. Gonzales for years, Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, paid tribute to the Harvard-educated Mr. Gonzales, the first attorney general of Hispanic heritage. “He has served in difficult times and I believe is a good, honest man who has worked hard in public service all his life,” the senator said in a statement. Mr. Gonzales’s resignation is the latest in a series of high-level departures that has reshaped the end of Mr. Bush’s second term. Mr. Rove, the political adviser who is another of Mr. Bush’s close circle of aides from Texas, stepped down two weeks ago. The official who disclosed the resignation in advance today said that the turmoil over Mr. Gonzales had made it difficult for him to continue as attorney general. “The unfair treatment that he’s been on the receiving end of has been a distraction for the department,” the official said.

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Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales Resigns - The New York Times - Politics - Washington - New York Times

A senior administration official said today that Mr. Gonzales, who was in Washington, had called the president in Crawford, Tex., on Friday to offer his resignation. The president rebuffed the offer, but said the two should talk face to face on Sunday. Mr. Gonzales and his wife flew to Texas, and over lunch on Sunday the president accepted the resignation with regret, the official said. On Saturday night Mr. Gonzales was contacted by his press spokesman to ask how the department should respond to inquiries from reporters about rumors of his resignation, and he told the spokesman to deny the reports. White House spokesmen also insisted on Sunday that they did not believe that Mr. Gonzales was planning to resign. Aides to senior members of the Senate Judiciary Committee said over the weekend that they had received no suggestion from the administration that Mr. Gonzales intended to resign. As late as Sunday afternoon, Mr. Gonzales himself was denying through his spokesman that he was quitting. The spokesman, Brian Roehrkasse, said Sunday that he telephoned the attorney general about the reports of his imminent resignation “and he said it wasn’t true — so I don’t know what more I can say.”

Steven Lee Myers reported from Waco, Texas, and Philip Shenon reported from Washington.

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EXHIBIT 3

In Searching for New Job, Gonzales Sees No Takers - New York Times

April 13, 2008

In Searching for New Job, Gonzales Sees No Takers
By NEIL A. LEWIS

WASHINGTON Alberto R. Gonzales, like many others recently unemployed, has discovered how difficult it can be to find a new job. Mr. Gonzales, the former attorney general, who was forced to resign last year, has been unable to interest law firms in adding his name to their roster, Washington lawyers and his associates said in recent interviews. He has, through friends, put out inquiries, they said, and has not found any takers. What makes Mr. Gonzales’s case extraordinary is that former attorneys general, the government’s chief lawyer, are typically highly sought. A longtime loyalist to George W. Bush dating to their years together in Texas, Mr. Gonzales was once widely viewed as a strong candidate to be the first Hispanic-American nominated one day to the Supreme Court. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he carried an impressive personal story as the child of poor Mexican immigrants. Despite those credentials, he left office last August with a frayed reputation over his role in the dismissal of several federal prosecutors and the truthfulness of his testimony about a secret eavesdropping program. He has had no full-time job since his resignation, and his principal income has come from giving a handful of talks at colleges and before private business groups. “Maybe the passage of time will provide some opportunity for him,” said one Washington
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In Searching for New Job, Gonzales Sees No Takers - New York Times

lawyer who was aware of an inquiry to his firm from a Gonzales associate. “I wouldn’t say ‘rebuffed,’ ” said the lawyer, who asked his name not be used because the situation being described was uncomfortable for Mr. Gonzales. “I would say ‘not taken up.’ ” The greatest impediment to Mr. Gonzales’s being offered the kind of high-salary job being snagged these days by lesser Justice Department officials, many lawyers agree, is his performance during his last few months in office. In that period, he was openly criticized by lawmakers for being untruthful in his sworn testimony. His conduct is being investigated by the Office of the Inspector General of the Justice Department, which could recommend actions from exonerating him to recommending criminal charges. Friends set up a fund to help pay his legal bills. Asked about reports that law firms have not taken up feelers from Mr. Gonzales, Robert H. Bork Jr., a corporate communications specialist and his spokesman, said Mr. Gonzales was talking to many people about the next steps in his career. “He is considering his opportunities in law and business,” Mr. Bork said, “but after many years in public service he is considering his options carefully.” He said Mr. Gonzales “looks forward to the conclusion of the department’s inquiries and getting on with his life.” While he has not taken any full-time job, friends said he was probably receiving as much income from speaking engagements as he did as attorney general with its annual salary of more than $191,000. Places like Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State University and the University of Florida have paid him about $30,000 plus expenses for appearances, and the business groups pay a bit more, said sources at the schools and elsewhere who are familiar with

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the arrangements. Pomona College debated inviting him and decided he was not worth the money, the college newspaper reported. His first speech at the University of Florida last November was interrupted by protesters dressed as detainees.

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EXHIBIT 4

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Alberto Gonzales to Help `Special Master' on Check Patent Case By Susan Decker June 6 (Bloomberg) -- Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who was forced from his job amid a controversy over the firings of federal prosecutors, has been hired to provide assistance to a special master on a patent case. Gonzales will help former U.S. District Judge Layn R. Phillips oversee settlement talks in the case of a Texas company which claims banks such as Wells Fargo & Co., Citigroup Inc.'s Citibank and Bank of America Corp. are violating its patents for taking and transmitting digital images of checks. Phillips, in an order signed yesterday, said he needed Gonzales's help because of the number of parties in the case and the ``overall complexity of this litigation.'' The judge overseeing the case, U.S. District Judge David Folsom in Marshall, Texas, ``has no objection to Mr. Gonzales's assistance in this case, and believes he can provide valuable assistance to the Special Master,'' Phillips wrote in the order. Special masters are hired in patent cases to help district judges with complex issues. In this case, Phillips was hired to handle settlement talks between DataTreasury Corp. and the banks. Phillips didn't immediately return a call to his law firm Irell & Manella in Newport Beach, California. A former U.S. attorney, Phillips was appointed by former President Ronald Reagan to be a federal judge in Oklahoma City. He spent four years on the bench, according to information on the Irell & Manella Web site. The New York Times reported April 13 that Gonzales had been unable to find a full-time job since leaving office in August in the wake of a scandal involving the firing of nine federal prosecutors. His lawyer didn't immediately return a call for comment. The case is DataTreasury Corp. v. Wells Fargo & Co., 05cv291, U.S. District Court, Eastern
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District of Texas (Marshall). To contact the reporter on this story: Susan Decker in Washington at sdecker1@bloomberg. net.

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