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the mood on Capitol Hill remained charged as Senate confirmation hearings for former Missouri Sen. John Ashcroft stretched into a third day and the black judge whose nomination to the federal bench Ashcroft blocked prepared to testify. Missouri Supreme Court Justice Ronnie White on Thursday will discuss what he and others contend was Ashcroft's unfair characterization of him as "pro-criminal" in 1999 when Ashcroft helped deny him a spot on the federal bench. Bush shrugged off the fierce rhetoric about Ashcroft, telling ABC's Barbara Walters in excerpts of an interview aired on Wednesday, "I know there's a lot of people out there hollering, mainly voices of special interests in Washington. ... They're paid to create noise and emotion."
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