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Arkansas' two U.S. senators said Wednesday that they won't consider President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, maintaining that the seat should remain vacant until a new president is elected.

But Sen. John Boozman, unlike Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and some other Republicans, said he'd be glad to meet Obama's choice, Merrick Garland, who is chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

"We'd love to visit with him," the Republican from Rogers said in an interview. "I'm not on the [judiciary] committee, so I don't know how far up on the list I would be as far as people he would go to first, but certainly he would be very welcome in our office."