Bolton's Back . . .

On November 10, 2006, President Bush called for Senate confirmation of John Bolton as permanent representative to the United Nations. Send your senators a message to vote "No" on Mr. Bolton's nomination now.

Yes, he's back. The president nominated Mr. Bolton as U.N. ambassador and without any Senate action, made an appointment on August 1, 2005, the first day of the congressional recess. Now the Senate must confirm that nomination before the new 110th Congress convenes in January 2007. Without Senate confirmation, the nomination expires.

Over the weekend Sen. Joseph Biden, likely to become chair for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which held hearings on this nominee in 2005, called on the president to send a new nomination to the committee.

And Sen. Lincoln Chafee, Republican of Rhode Island and fellow committee member defeated in last week's election, announced he will continue to oppose Mr. Bolton's nomination. He said, "To confirm Mr. Bolton to the position of U. N ambassador would fly in the face of the clear consensus of the country that a new direction is called for."

With ten Republican and eight Democratic members the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at present would vote a tie: nine in favor and nine opposed -- effectively a "No" vote.