Why then on Earth would it take a cloture vote to get additional lending to go to community banks in order to get it to small businesses to create jobs?

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Opinion polls, at any rate, suggest that if the coming vote were on personalities alone he would take a good 60% of it.

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But Democrats say unless those documents are provided, it may take longer than this week to get a vote on Bolton's nomination.

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