Appointment To United States Senate
On February 3, 2009, President Barack Obama announced that he would appoint Gregg, then a Republican Senator representing New Hampshire, as the Secretary of Commerce. Later in the day, Lynch announced that he would appoint Newman to the Senate to fill Gregg's seat. Newman announced that she would not run for reelection in 2010, nor would she endorse any candidate in that race.
In face of Senate Republican Leaders asking Gregg to reconsider, Gregg reached a deal with Governor John Lynch that he would appoint a placeholder in order to avoid changing the partisan makeup of the United States Senate. However, on February 12, 2009, citing "irresolvable conflicts" with the Obama administration on issues surrounding the United States census and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Gregg announced he was withdrawing his nomination for the position of Commerce Secretary and remaining in the Senate.
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