Posted on 05/26/2005 2:48:58 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Democrats said they will try to filibuster John R. Bolton, the president's nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations, if the Bush administration does not turn over two final sets of documents.
"If the administration doesn't give us this information, then I want a 60-vote requirement here so that senators can express their views on this issue of the documentation that we need," said Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat and a member of the Foreign Relations Committee who has been among Mr. Bolton's strongest critics.
Republicans say there are enough votes to confirm Mr. Bolton once those objections are overcome, but they first must win a cloture vote set for this evening to stop the filibuster.
Mr. Dodd said he actually supports an up-or-down vote on Mr. Bolton, but is being forced into a filibuster as a protest against the administration.
It is the latest in a series of stumbling blocks for Mr. Bolton, whose nomination has been held up several times as Democrats and the administration butt heads over releasing records from his time as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security.
Mr. Dodd said he knows how a filibuster might look to voters, given how a coalition of senators headed off a showdown earlier this week on filibusters of judicial nominees, but said Democrats must demand the administration's cooperation.
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Chris should lighten up. Take a break. Maybe he could join he good friend, Senator Kennedy, for a sandwich.
Who wants to bet that the GOP caves on this one too?
Give a mouse a cookie and he's going to want a glass of milk.
Short term memory or a lier take your pick.
Democrats and "Good Faith" DON'T go together! :-)
Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing you are.
I, too, would filibuster Michael Bolton.
This might be interesting.
Anyone know anything about these documents they say they want and whether or not they actually have any relevance to this farcical procedure?
YUCK.
Delusions of grandeur.
Methinks I'd rather he join Scuba Teddy for a late night driver over a long list of bridges--without scuba gear.
me too
I think we should not only send Bolton in there to clean house, but we should send him in there with a flamethrower in one hand and an M-60 assault cannon in the other!
I, a citizen, DEMAND that the democrats stop their
obstructionism, their vile rhetoric, their pandering
to leftist ideologues, and begin cooperating with the
president and the republicans in the interests of a nation
at war, for surely we are that.
If the democrat party will not support our nation in time
of war, then perhaps they would like to try secession.
For unity and support are what is required of us all in
these times, and if they cannot bring themselves to do this, to put country above party then it's time we saw them
for what they really are, our enemy.
I'm sure they have to be VERY important documents. Why else would Sen Dodd be all atwitter about them. I'm sure he couldn't be grandstanding.(/sarc)
Scuba Teddy needs an extra weight belt because he rides high in the water from being so full of ShXt!
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