Posted on 04/06/2005 10:32:04 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
A Senate committee postponed until next week a hearing on John R. Bolton's nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, with a spokesman saying several members would be attending Pope John Paul II's funeral.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing had been planned for Thursday. Bolton faces stiff opposition for stands he has taken as undersecretary of state for arms control.
The postponement until Monday comes amid increased focus on the potential pivotal vote that will be cast by Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I. Chafee is a moderate who has said he likely would support the nomination, but he has given Bolton only a lukewarm endorsement.
"The senator has not made up his mind. He's waiting to hear on the record what is said and then he'll decide. But we're inclined to support the nomination. That's where we are," Stephen Hourahan, a Chafee spokesman, said Wednesday.
So far, Hourahan said, there's been nothing in Bolton's background that has surfaced that would prompt Chafee to vote against Bolton.
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The (bizarro) world according to the AP.
He is a freaking flaming LIBERAL!
Get 'em by the ballz. Their "hearts and minds" will follow.
As Richard Nixon was reported to have said about how to handle the ayatollahs in the Iranian hostage situation: "You make a deal. Then you screw 'em."
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