[env-trinity] Reuters News Service March 16

[Byron]

Reuters

 

 

 

Bush picks Idaho's Kempthorne for Interior Thu Mar 16, 2006 4:27 PM ET

 

 WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Thursday chose
Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne as his choice to replace Gale Norton as Interior
secretary, a Republican official said.

 

 Bush was expected to make a formal announcement at 5:30 p.m. EST on
Thursday.

 

 Kempthorne, who was first elected governor in 1998, is also a former
senator. The Interior secretary job, which oversees federal lands, requires
Senate confirmation.

 

Byron Leydecker

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Advisor, California Trout, Inc

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Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

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