Senate confirms Johnson as GSA administrator

[The Straight Story]

Senate confirms Johnson as GSA administrator


Martha Johnson's stay in bureaucratic purgatory has ended.

More than 10 months after she was nominated to serve as head of the General Services Administration, Johnson finally was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday afternoon.

The Senate had to vote to invoke cloture -- essentially a motion to end debate -- to break a hold on Johnson's nomination placed by Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo. Once cloture was invoked, the Senate voted again and confirmed Johnson, 94-2.


A former chief of staff at GSA during the Clinton administration, Johnson will be the agency's first Senate-confirmed chief since Lurita A. Doan resigned in April 2008. Since then, the agency has had four acting administrators, including its current interim chief, Stephen Leeds.

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