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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5033521,00.htmlSenator Calls for Delay in Vote on Bolton
Thursday May 26, 2005 4:01 PM
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By ANNE GEARAN
AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is stiff-arming Democrats over classified information about President Bush's pick to be United Nations ambassador, and the Senate should put off a vote on the embattled nominee until next month, a Democratic opponent argued Thursday.
``We should delay this until we see that information; it's a matter of right and wrong,'' Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., maintained at the start of a second day of Senate debate over John R. Bolton's fitness and qualifications. ``It is right for us to get that information, it is wrong for the administration to withhold it.''
Democrats set up a procedural vote over the documents Thursday, ahead of a planned up-or-down vote on the man that Bush says would reform the United Nations.
The material, which Democrats have sought for weeks, involves Bolton's use of government intelligence on Syria and instances in which he asked for names of fellow U.S. officials whose communications were secretly picked up by a spy agency.
Boxer read out a litany of allegations about Bolton that she said show he is ill-suited to be the nation's top representative at the world body. She also accused Bolton of misleading the Senate committee that wrangled over Bolton's nomination for weeks without offering him its endorsement.
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