[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 14143]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              NOMINATIONS

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, we have a number of nominations we are going 
to try to clear today. We have a number of consent requests but just a 
few in number. We have been asked by the White House to hold off on one 
of those for the next 15 minutes, so we will do that. We have quite a 
large batch of nominations to clear. We have a hold on them. We thought 
we had it all worked out, but there is a problem on the other side. 
That is unfortunate, but that is what seems to happen. I have had a 
number of conversations with the President's Chief of Staff, and they 
have had numerous meetings with my people and the President's people. 
We thought we had everything worked out--and we do on our side--as to 
what Mr. Bolton wants. But we will wait to see if that can be worked 
out with the minority, and sometime in the near future.
  I have nothing further at this time, Mr. President.

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