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Senate Democrats May Extend Inquiry on Bolton

They say documents they need on Bush's nominee for the U.N. have not been furnished.

By Paul Richter / Los Angeles Times
May 7th, 2005 6:19 pm

But though Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.), the committee chairman, may believe the inquiry has ended, Democrats on the panel said more information was needed. And aides said the Democrats might try to extend the investigation.

The State Department sent additional documents related to the inquiry to the committee Friday, but Democratic aides complained that all the papers they wanted were not included. On Thursday, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, the senior committee Democrat, sent a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warning that the Democrats might seek a delay if documents were not produced.

Democratic aides said the documents sent Friday did not include material they had requested on how Bolton had used intelligence information in his official speeches. Biden was "rather unhappy" that Democrats were being treated in a "cavalier manner," spokesman Norm Kurz said.

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Biden Scolds Rice Over Bolton Info
Saturday, May 07, 2005

WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the Senate committee considering the nomination of John R. Bolton as United Nations ambassador scolded Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (search) on Saturday for ignoring Democratic requests for additional information about the embattled nominee.

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Biden acknowledged that the State Department sent the GOP-led committee a large number of documents last week from Bolton's four-year tenure as the department's arms control chief. But the documents answered only requests from the committee's Republican chairman and ignored what Democrats wanted to see, Biden wrote.

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