voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/22/2008
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I find H.R.C. not the best fit for the SecState position. Yes, it is beneficial to have your enemies close to you, but Obama was elected for change, and she is not change. There are other folks with less star power who are better equiped to follow Obama's lead in Foreign Policy than she with ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/23/2008
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By Al Kamen Even if the vetting problems
involving former president Bill Clinton's finances can be resolved,...
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton may face another roadblock on her way to the secretary of state's chair. It's called the Constitution of the ...
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Hillary Clinton's Fix
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"Emoluments," Clinton, and That Pesky Constitution
Daily Kos —
... This was not without objection. Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) was opposed, saying that the Constitution was explicit and "we should not delude the American people into thinking a way can be found around the constitutional obstacle." NYT liberal columnist Anthony Lewis ...
US Constitution Says Hillary Clinton Can't Serve as Secretary of State
Wizbang —
... . But many Senate Democrats at that time, including Robert Byrd, were not pleased : Congress acceded to Nixon's request to lower the attorney general's salary to its pre-1969 level. Apparently this had been done once before, in 1909, for a senator in line to be secretary of state. And President George H.W. Bush, as he was leaving office, approved a Saxbe fix so that Treasury Secretary Lloyded Bentsen could move from the Senate to take that job. But Democrats in the past have inveighed against this sleight-of-hand. In the Saxbe case, 10 senators, all Democrats, voted against ...
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