Joe Pitts: “John Bolton is the President's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the U.N. The Senate has not yet voted on his nomination.…”

“John Bolton is the President's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the U.N. The Senate has not yet voted on his nomination. A few Members are holding up that vote so they can explore his treatment of lower-level staffers. Janice Rogers Brown and Priscilla Owen are two of the President's nominees to be Federal judges. The Senate has not yet voted on their nominations. A few Democrats have promised to hold up these votes so they can prove a political point. What do these three have in common, I mean, other than being victims of the Senate's partisan machinations? They are all highly qualified. They would all do a great job. They would all receive the support of a majority of Senators. They are all nominated for jobs that are currently vacant. That is right; the jobs the President has asked these people to do are not being done. That is not the President's fault. That is not Bill Frist's fault. Some Democrats paid a political price for obstructionism last November. It seems that some of them are still slow learners. ____________________”