Koh vote goes to Senate
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations voted Tuesday to send Harold Hongju Koh's nomination as legal adviser to the Department of State to the full Senate. But in a reflection of the recent debate of Koh's nomination, the vote was split 12-to-5, almost exactly along party lines.
Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, the senior Republican on the committee, was the only GOP member to vote with the Democrats in favor of Koh's nomination.
As we reported last week, the Foreign...
Senator DeMint, who delayed the Foreign Relations Committee vote for a week over concerns that "Mr. Koh’s positions could undermine American sovereignty," offered the same objection to the confirmation of Senator Hillary Clinton to the position of Secretary of State: "I believe she will take our foreign policy in a direction that erodes our national independence and surrenders sovereignty to international powers. " http://demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=fb569908-9128-2b78-b330-0b0cf80955ca&Month=1&Year=2009