The president also called on Congress to approve U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, but new developments indicate he will run into difficulty. On Thursday, Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island said he would continue to oppose Bolton’s nomination. Chafee leaves Congress in January after losing his bid for re-election. Chafee said, “The American people have spoken out against the president’s agenda on a number of fronts, and presumably one of those is on foreign policy. … I’m not going to endorse something the American people have spoke out against.” Without Chafee’s vote, Republicans will likely fall short of moving Bolton’s nomination out of committee to the full Senate.