On a 10-8 vote along party lines, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has sent the nomination of John Bolton to the full Senate without its endorsement.

Bolton is the president's nominee to be Ambassador to the United Nations, but he has come under harsh criticism from Republicans like Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) who had this to say today:

I believe that John Bolton would have been fired if he'd worked for a major corporation. This is not the behavior of a true leader who upholds the kind of democracy that President Bush is seeking to promote globally. This is not the behavior that should be endorsed as the face of the United States to the world community and the United Nations. Rather, Mr. Chairman, it is my opinion that John Bolton is the poster child of what someone in the diplomatic corps should not be.