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SENATE COMMITTEE DELAYS ACTION ON U.N. NOMINEE BOLTON

Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., left, speaks with an aid as Sen. Richard Lugar, R-IN, chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting which was held to vote on John Bolton to be U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 19, 2005. The committee chose to delay the vote after Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. and George Voinovich, R-Ohio, expressed concern allegations against him. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)

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