Republicans Vote Down Bid to Delay Vote on Bolton

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Republicans Vote Down Bid to Delay Vote on Bolton (Update1)
April 19 (Bloomberg) -- Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee moved toward a vote on John Bolton's nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations as Democrats raised new allegations about President George W. Bush's nominee.

``There have been additional cases made as to why Mr. Bolton should not be the ambassador, our ambassador,'' said Joe Biden of Delaware, the senior Democrat on the committee.

Biden said an unnamed U.S. AID worker in Kyrgystan claimed Bolton harassed her over a business matter, chasing her through halls of a hotel and shoving a threatening letter under her door. ``There are other things that have been alleged relating to a pattern of his conduct,'' Biden said.

Biden urged the committee move to closed session to consider such testimony, action that would delay a scheduled vote today on the nomination. The panel's Republican chairman Richard Lugar wouldn't agree.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=al6VDhJhpSY0&refer=us

[Larkspur]

1. A small victory, but an important one

The real victory will come when Bolton nomination is either withdrawn, if it looks like Bush won't get the votes, or stymied again in committee.

[seemslikeadream]

3. But Bloomberg got it wrong!

hehe

[wookie294]

2. Actually, Lugar did agree to delay the vote

Doh!

[lancdem]

5. Good!

So this article is wrong.

[wookie294]

7. Yeah, this article is wrong

I just heard on CNN Headline News that the Committee agreed to delay the vote so Democrats can get more documents from the State Department to show Voinovich and other fence-sitters that Bolton is indeed a big scumbag.

[lancdem]

4. I thought Voinovich also wanted a delay

That's what the other thread says. :shrug:

[seemslikeadream]

6. Ooopsy somebody got it wrong

[pinto]

8. As noted above, Bloomberg jumped the gun. In the face of a tie vote, Luger

"agreed" on a consensus to delay the vote - leaving the door open for more documents to be presented and a possibility of recalling Bolton to testify....great parliamentary TV. Luger was over his head on this one, especially after Voinivich indicated he'd not vote to send the nomination out of committee. Yes!

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9. Who would have thought - Voinivich

!!!!

[calimary]

14. Voinovich needs to be THANKED:

Here's his contact info from DUer K8-EEE:

Honorable George V. Voinovich 524 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 [phone] Fax: [phone] TDD: [phone]

Got this from FR, he's getting Freeped, support Voinovich for doing the decent thing!!

[maddezmom]

10. update Reuters: Senate Panel Delays Vote on Bolton for U.N.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8230862&src=rss/topNews

[xultar]

11. Whew! I was sweatin bullets when I saw this LBN thread. I was gonna

go apeshit!

[cyberpj]

12. Write to this guy and his editor (here) - HE WAS WRONG and should

wait to see how things actually turn out before posting his story!!


To contact the reporter on this story:
Jeff St.Onge in Washington at [e-mail]

To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Joe Winski at [e-mail]

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13. And it is STILL up

the rest of the story


``Republicans want to vote for John Bolton,'' Lugar said as 10 Republicans on the committee voted in unison against Biden's motion. The panel's 8 Democrats are united against Bolton.

Lugar rejected a request by Democrat Chris Dodd to bring Bolton back before the committee to answer allegations that have surfaced since he appeared in a confirmation hearing April 11.

``He has no right to be promoted on this occasion having engaged in the behavior he did,'' Dodd, of Connecticut, said. Bolton has a history of ``threatening intelligence analysts and others where they took positions in disagreement with his own,'' Dodd said.

On the expectation that the foreign relations panel will approve Bolton's nomination and send it to the full chamber for a vote, Senate Democrats in a closed-door meeting today discussed the possibility of trying to block Bolton's confirmation with a filibuster, said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid