Reid to force vote on Koh confirmation
Updated 7:03 p.m. Harold Hongju Koh's future should get a lot clearer in about 36 hours.
Senate Democrats said this evening that they would give Republicans that much time to come to an agreement to consider Koh's nomination for the position of legal adviser to the Department of State. If no agreement is reached, a cloture vote will be held Wednesday morning, Sen. Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, said on the Senate floor at 7 p.m. this evening.
An hour earlier, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Regan Lachapelle, said in an e-mail message...
It's about time.