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Julian Borger
WASHINGTON: The U.S. Senate committee assessing John Bolton's nomination as the next U.S. ambassador to the U.N. has widened its inquiry to interview several more potentially hostile witnesses, in a fresh blow to the White House. Only months after winning re-election, George Bush's authority is being challenged on several fronts.
Bush prestige at risk
President has risked his prestige with his adamant support for Mr. Bolton, even after some Republicans on the foreign relations committee voiced doubts about his temperament. According to an official on the committee, most of the two dozen officials and former officials the Senators plan to interview in the next 10 days are thought to have clashed with him, or to have witnessed some of the heated rows for which he earned a reputation in his former job at the State Department. ``Most of them are witnesses to some of the controversies we've been talking about,'' the official said. Mr. Bush is taking a similar risk in demonstrating Oval Office backing for an embattled congressional leader, Tom DeLay, accompanying him to a public event on board Air Force One at a time Mr. DeLay, a fellow Texas Conservative, is facing multiple charges of ethics violations. Meanwhile, the pension reform programme he has made the priority of his second term is languishing amid lukewarm support from many Republicans, and its merits are being debated by a deeply divided Senate panel. Mr. Bush has refused to back down on any of these tests of strength. - Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
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