[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 11801]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY LEADER

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Democratic leader is 
recognized.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I say through the Chair to the distinguished 
majority leader, we have spoken to staff on the situation involving the 
Griffith nomination. I have not had the opportunity to speak to the 
ranking member, Senator Leahy. Hopefully, we can get that resolved so 
maybe even on Monday we can complete debate on that nomination.
  We are trying to cooperate as much as we can getting through this 
little hurdle we have had here so we can move on to other issues.
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, as we try to complete the business we have 
been addressing over the last several weeks, the one remaining item we 
have not really settled on is the Bolton nomination. I filed a motion 
to reconsider that vote. There are a lot of ongoing discussions. That 
is very important business that we need to address in the near future, 
and we will continue to discuss, as we have over the last couple of 
days, what the appropriate time is for that nomination to be brought 
back. I intend to do that.

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