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President Bush demanded Monday that the Senate vote on John R. Bolton\'s nomination to be U.N. ambassador, sidestepping a question as to whether he might temporarily install Bolton in the post if Democratic delays continue.
\"Put him in,\" Bush said at a news conference. \"If they are interested in reforming the United Nations, they ought to approve John Bolton.\"
Bush spoke hours before the Republican-run Senate was scheduled to vote for a second time on ending a Democratic filibuster that has blocked a final vote on Bolton\'s nomination. The 100-member chamber seemed likely to fall short of the 60 votes needed to end the delays, as it did last month.
Earlier Monday, White House press secretary Scott McClellan did not rule out that Bush would consider a so-called recess appointment during the upcoming July 4 break if the Senate does not approve Bolton\'s nomination.
Bush, asked at a news conference with European Union leaders whether he might use the recess mechanism to temporarily install Bolton, said, \"I think it\'s time for the Senate to give him an up-or-down vote. Now.\"
A president can make an appointment during a Senate recess without the chamber\'s approval of the nominee. That appointment lasts only through the next one-year session of Congress — which in this case would mean until January 2007.
McClellan blamed Democrats for \"obstructing progress\" by stalling a vote on Bolton. Bush has said Bolton would push for overhauling the U.N. bureaucracy and making it more accountable, while critics say his confrontational style and history of criticizing the institution make him unsuitable for the job.
On Sunday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also left the door open for a recess appointment of Bolton.
Rice, on a trip to the Middle East and Europe, commented in a round of television interviews Sunday as Democrats defended their attempt...
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