Will Bolton Nomination Finally Get Out of Committee?

[Annie]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050508/ap_on_re_us/un_ambassador

WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday he expected John R. Bolton, the contentious nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to win a party-line vote in the committee this week.

"Republicans, I suspect, will vote in favor of John Bolton; Democrats, I suspect, will vote unanimously against him," Sen. Richard Lugar (news, bio, voting record), R-Ind., said on CBS' "Face the Nation." That would send Bolton's nomination to the full Senate on a 10-8 margin when the GOP-led committee meets Thursday.

Lugar said he thought the vote, delayed since mid-April, would come off as scheduled. But he acknowledged that Democrats who want to get more information about Bolton have many procedural ways to stall the vote...

 

[musicman]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050508/ap_on_re_us/un_ambassador

It's kind of handy - the way that works out; almost as if the will of the people were being upheld, through their duly elected representatives.

What a concept! I wonder if it'll catch on...