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Today’s resignation announcement from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is drawing mixed responses from some of Houston’s Congressional delegation. No one was surprised.
“It’s not un-expected,” says Democratic Rep. Gene Green. “There were rumors about Attorney General Holder resigning, and this is not unusual [for] most Presidential appointees, in the middle of their second term. I guess I’d chalk it up to, ‘they’ve had all the fun they could take.’”
Republican Rep. Kevin Brady of The Woodlands is more direct: “You know, this is long-overdue,” he says. “The Attorney General hasn’t fulfilled his Constitutional responsibility, either in the programs he’s run — the Fast and Furious, and others — or in his refusal to appoint a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of the IRS Scandal.”
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Holder is the nation’s first black attorney general, and his tenure at six years is the fourth longest on the job.
“Eric Holder’s served a long time for attorney general, in all honesty,” Green says. “I think he’s done a reasonably good job; there were some issues, I’d disagreed, but again, that’s what America’s about.”
“It is time — in fact, long-past time — for a fresh start in the attorney general’s office,” Brady says.
Holder plans to remain at the Justice Department until his successor is in place.
“Someone,” Brady hopes, “with the integrity, actually, to uphold the laws of the land.”
The legacy of the outgoing AG will be clear on one level.
“I think, first, the first African-American attorney general,” notes Green. “I think he was a very qualified lawyer, even before. I would give him a ‘B,’ just because of looking back on some of the issues he dealt with over the last number of years.”
Houston Congressmen React to Holder Resignation was originally published on news92fm.com
