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Senate Confirms Mabus As Navy Secretary

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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

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By Emelie Rutherford Raymond Mabus, a former Mississippi governor and manufacturing executive, will be the next Navy secretary. The Senate on Monday night voted in favor of confirming Mabus, whom President Obama nominated, to succeed Donald Winter as the Navy's top civilian leader. Mabus was sworn in yesterday, the Defense Department said in a press release last night. The confirmation was approved in the Senate by unanimous consent along with five other Pentagon nominations, a maneuver that did not require a…

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