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Jeff Sessions Confirmed as Attorney General

KQED | By John Sepulvado
Published February 9, 2017 at 3:50 AM PST

longtime Alabama Senator and lawyer has been confirmed by the Senate as Attorney General. The vote was 52 to 49. California Senator Kamala Harris explained she was voting against his nomination because of Sessions' civil rights record.

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John Sepulvado
John's from Southern California. He attended Journalism School at Florida A&M in Tallahassee. John's reporting has earned four Edward R. Murrow awards for investigations, and he shared in a Peabody for CNN's Gulf Coast Oil-Spill Coverage. He has also won numerous other national and regional awards for his investigative and multimedia coverage.
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