The Senate Judiciary Committee vote to send Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder’s confirmation to the full Senate has been postponed after Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.), the ranking minority member, announced that the minority had reached a “unanimous view that there was insufficient time to question Mr. Holder” during a meeting earlier this morning.

Specter’s announcement clearly upset Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) who asked Specter to “note that on Friday I said several times that we could stay as long as we wanted. But everybody left,” in response to Specter’s complaints that the questioning had been of a “hurried nature.”

The delay comes as a bit of a surprise since two minority members, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Sen. Mel Martinez (D-Fla.) have both announced their support of Holder’s nomination. Despite this, Specter, supposedly representing the minority, has complained about “rushed hearings” since Holder’s name was put in for attorney general.

The committee has been loosely scheduled to reconvene next week.

Late update: Politico reports that Holder’s hearings were delayed so the minority could further inquire into his views on torture. Specifically, Sen. John Cornyn (R- Tex.) wants to examine whether Holder’s stance on interrogation (last week in his testimony, Holder said “waterboarding is torture “) will mean prosecution for intelligence personnel involved in questionable interrogation techniques.