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Christopher Dodd urged President Bush to reconsider appointing John Bolton as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations without Senate confirmation.

Christopher Dodd urged President Bush to reconsider appointing John Bolton as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations without Senate confirmation.

"This will be the first U.N. ambassador since 1948 that we've ever sent there under a recess appointment," said Dodd, the senior senator from Connecticut. "That's not what you want to send up, a person that doesn't have the confidence of the Congress, and so many people who have urged that he not be sent up to do that job." A recess appointment would last until the end of the current term of Congress, which would put Bolton at the United Nations until January 2007. Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Dominican Republic in the 1960's.

Christopher Dodd urged President Bush to reconsider appointing John Bolton as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations without Senate confirmation.

Dodd to Bush: Don't appoint Bolton
McConnell says nominee has been 'twisting in the wind'

Sunday, July 31, 2005; Posted: 8:08 p.m. EDT (00:08 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Christopher Dodd urged President Bush on Sunday to reconsider appointing John Bolton as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations without Senate confirmation.

Bush may make a presidential recess appointment this week to install the controversial Bolton -- an under secretary at the State Department -- two senior administration officials have said.

Such a move would thwart Senate Democrats who have blocked Bolton's nomination in a dispute over documents and amid accusations that Bolton doesn't have the temperament for the nation's top U.N. post.

Under the Constitution, a president has the power to make appointments without Senate confirmation when Congress goes into recess. Lawmakers began their current break on Friday.

Dodd, a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said a recess appointment would send a negative message to the Senate and the United Nations.

"I would hope the president would think a little longer about this from his perspective," Dodd said on "Fox News Sunday." "I just think Mr. Bolton's the bad choice here. ... He's damaged goods. This is a person who lacks credibility."

"This will be the first U.N. ambassador since 1948 that we've ever sent there under a recess appointment," said Dodd, the senior senator from Connecticut.

"That's not what you want to send up, a person that doesn't have the confidence of the Congress, and so many people who have urged that he not be sent up to do that job."

A recess appointment would last until the end of the current term of Congress, which would put Bolton at the United Nations until January 2007.

Democrats say Bolton does not have the diplomatic skills for the post, arguing he has dismissed the value of the United Nations and often intimidated subordinates until they agreed with his viewpoint.

A former colleague testified in early April that Bolton was "a quintessential kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy."

Senate Democrats held up the nomination after the White House refused, on grounds of executive privilege, to provide records of communications intercepts Bolton sought from the National Security Agency when he was the State Department's point man on arms control.

The State Department late Thursday acknowledged that Bolton incorrectly told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a questionnaire that he had not been interviewed as part of any investigation within the past five years.

That admission prompted one of the committee's Democrats, Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, to call on Bush to pull Bolton's nomination.
'Twisting in the wind'

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate majority whip said Bolton has been "twisting in the wind" at a time when the United Nations is set to take up key issues in September.

"Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him," McConnell said on "Fox News Sunday."

"If the president would have dropped Bolton and sent somebody else, there'd be no chance of getting him in place by September."

McConnell added, "If the president recess-appoints John Bolton, I can understand why, because he's been waiting a long time to get the person that he believes is best to represent his administration at the U.N."

Last Monday, White House press secretary Scott McClellan hinted at a recess appointment, saying it might be needed for "people ... that have waited far too long to get about doing their business."

"If the Senate fails to act and move forward on those nominees," McClellan said, "then sometimes there comes a point where the president has needed to fill that in a timely manner by recessing those nominees." (Full story)

The United States has been without a permanent representative at the U.N. since January, when former Sen. John Danforth resigned to spend more time with his ailing wife. Acting Ambassador Anne Patterson is leading the U.N. mission in New York.

Senate GOP leaders have twice failed to break a Democratic filibuster and move Bolton's nomination to a floor vote.

Although the split has largely been along party lines, one Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio, has joined Democrats in opposing Bolton's nomination.





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