Gregg: "Not A Time For Partisanship"
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President Obama nominated NH Sen. Judd Gregg earlier today for Commerce Sec, saying that they don't agree on every issue but are in concert about the "urgent need to get American businesses and families back on their feet."
Gregg thanked Obama "for taking this rather extraordinary step" of asking the Republican to join his administration.
"This is not a time for partisanship," Gregg said. "This is not a time when we should stand in our ideological corners and shout at each other. This is a time to govern and govern well.
Gregg also thanked NH Gov. John Lynch, a Democrat who has agreed to put a Republican placeholder in Gregg's seat until the 2010 election, "for his courtesy and courage" in helping to make the appointment happen. Gregg had said he wouldn't take the Cabinet job if his exit shifted the balance of power in the Senate.
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