Gregg uplifted after yes-no on Cabinet

GOP senator takes up top role as budget critic

Party leaders are pushing Judd Gregg to seek reelection next year.

By Sasha Issenberg

Globe Staff / April 20, 2009

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WASHINGTON - In the months since Senator Judd Gregg's surprise withdrawal from his nomination to be President Obama's commerce secretary, the New Hampshire Republican has remade himself into one of the most fervent critics of the administration's budget policies. Obama, he says, has already begun to do more damage to the country's finances than all his predecessors combined. (Full article: 1044 words)