President Bush has not yet named a Social Security commissioner.
He is the man President Bush named as this country's first coordinator of the anti-drug activities spread out among more than a dozen Federal agencies.
Democrats said a close vote would warn President Bush not to name such conservative judges.
A year ago President Bush named this conflict the "war on terror" and committed the United States to fighting it.
President Bush will soon name a professional conservationist to the State Department's top environmental post, Administration officials said today.
Congress and President Bush have named it Patriot Day, a designation that almost no one seems to know about or use.
"President Bush could not have named a Western governor more in line with this administration."
President Bush announced Mr. Webster's decision today but did not name a successor.
The deal allowed President Bush to name the commission's chairman and cochairman.
President Bush created the commission by executive order on July 11 and named eight members.
