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...Those who came to observe or participate in confirmation hearings for Secretary of State-designate Colin Powell; Christine Todd Whitman, Bush's choice for EPA administrator; Mel Martinez, the HUD secretary-designate; or Treasury hopeful Paul O'Neill were treated to a day of friendly banter occasionally interrupted by the odd probing question. Those who sat in on John Ashcroft's continuing saga before the Senate Judiciary Committee, on the other hand, witnessed another scene altogether, one marked by harsh repudiation and angry retorts...
...Senators on the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs committee didn't seem particularly concerned about Mel Martinez, either. The HUD secretary-designate zipped through his questions, promising to increase the rates of home ownership across the country, adding, "I came to America with a suitcase and the hope of a better life. I know the value of home ownership because I have witnessed its great power throughout my entire life...
...BLUE] Mel Martinez HOUSING SECRETARY As a Florida county chairman, Martinez cut property taxes and helped low-income families find housing. He axed the fire chief for not diversifying his staff...
...before, Jean Carnahan was working on a speech in her office at the Missouri Governor's mansion when she looked up to find a state trooper at the door. He dropped on one knee, took her hand and told her that her eldest son Randy and her husband, Governor Mel Carnahan, had just been killed when their small plane crashed. "I knew instantly what he was going to say. My world stopped." A few days later, on her way to the family cemetery for the burials, she "realized something was happening out there. At every town, people waited for hours...
...relationships born of desperation. Interwoven are heartrending but barbed recollections of absent, distracted parents--a self-absorbed mother, writer Alice Walker, who hires someone to take her daughter clothes shopping because she is "too busy to do it; too tired"; and a "checked out, sagging" father, civil rights attorney Mel Leventhal...