Intelligence officials say Deutch believes it is in the best interest of the CIA not to have a "lame duck" in office while Lake is undergoing Senate confirmation.

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Someone in my office would manually send out a confirmation e-mail.

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Obama is the first President in history to have voted against the confirmation of the Chief Justice who later administered his oath of office.

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For her part, Sotomayor spent recent weeks in a tiny, plain office in the Eisenhower Office Building next door to the West Wing of the White House to prepare for the confirmation hearing.

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