The U.S. Senate approved President Obama’s nomination of James Comey as the new Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Director, Monday, July 29.
According to USA Today, the senate voted 93-1 to confirm Comey, 52, who served as deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush and earned bipartisan support for his 2004 role in scuttling efforts in the Bush White House to pursue a domestic surveillance program that was deemed illegal by the Justice Department, the article says.