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Kavanaugh Moves Step Closer to Confirmation, But With a Hitch

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Kavanaugh Moves Step Closer to Confirmation, But With a Hitch
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President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, moved a step closer to confirmation Friday when he won a party-line endorsement from the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee. But uncertainty was introduced when a Republican senator insisted on a delay in the final Senate vote on Kavanaugh until the FBI can investigate an allegation of sexual assault brought by California professor Christine Blasey Ford. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone has the latest from Washington.

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