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To: epicure who wrote (105145)	5/26/2005 7:52:53 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

Senate votes to delay Bolton nomination 32 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to delay John Bolton's confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, yielding to Democrats' demands that the Bush administration hand over more information on Bolton. The Senate voted 56-42, giving Republicans less than the 60 votes needed to end debate and go to a final vote on Bolton. That will put the vote off until after Congress' weeklong Memorial Day recess. The vote marked another setback for the troubled nomination that has become a test of President Bush's political clout in his second term. Democrats pressed for the delay, insisting the administration turn over more documents they said are important to the Senate's review of whether Bolton tried to misuse U.S. intelligence to promote his hawkish views. "We're ready to vote on the Bolton nomination if you give us requested information that we're entitled to in assessing whether or not Mr. Bolton should go to the U.N.," said Joseph Biden of Delaware, senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "I'm very, very disappointed with where we sit today," said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican. Republicans accused Democrats of deliberately tarnishing Bolton with accusations that he was abusive and tried to coerce intelligence analysts to make their assessments of threats posed by Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria conform to his hardline views.