State Department Offers Bolton Material
By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer 16 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - At the State Department's urging, Senate Democrats narrowed their request for internal government documents bearing on John R. Bolton's fitness to be the United States' ambassador to the
United Nations.
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Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have threatened to force a delay in the panel's planned Thursday vote on Bolton unless they get the information they want. They planned a private strategy session Tuesday and were hoping to receive more material from the State Department later in the day, said Norm Kurz, a spokesman for the committee's senior Democrat, Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware.
The movement on the documents could be a sign that the two sides were steering away from a new clash that would further delay the committee's vote, though Democrats said they had received nothing by early afternoon.
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