Harold Koh has been reported out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on a 12 to 5 vote, according to a committee spokesperson. Ranking member, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) voted with the committee’s 11 Democrats to advance Koh’s nomination to be the State Department’s Legal Adviser to the Senate floor.
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