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Kerik Moves
Welcome to New York area politics. Plus: Collins caught in a Patriot act.
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br> Conservatives in Washington, D.C. were continuing to grumble about the performance of Republican Sen. Susan Collins , the chairman of the Government Affairs Committee, and the point person for Republicans in the recent Intelligence Reform bill that passed through Congress last week. /p>Collins was given the responsibility over other, more seemingly appropriate picks, such as Sen. John Warner. But in the end, Collins appears to have done exactly what the Senate leadership and the White House wanted done, with little political back-biting in the process. "You would have been getting all kinds of stuff going on with someone like Warner or McCain or Hagel sitting there," says a Government Affairs staffer. "Collins had the confidence of the leadership and the White House. She got the job done, and got a lot of stuff through there that others might not have let slip through."
p>Included in that are many provisions related to the USA Patriot Act II legislation that was essentially killed two years ago as politically impossible to pass through the Congress. br> /p>
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