nytimes.com - 1/13/2009
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The following is a transcript of the senate confirmation hearing nominating Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, as provided by CQ Transcriptions. KERRY: Well, good morning, everyone. We welcome you all here. We're delighted to welcome Senator Clinton, secretary of state designate. I ...
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/20/2009
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One of Hillary Rodham Clinton's Republican colleagues blocked
a vote on Mrs. Clinton's nomination, citing ethical questions...
arising from donors to her husband's charitable foundation.
(more)
No Confirmation Vote for Clinton
washingtonpost.com - 1/13/2009
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Live Blog: Clinton's Confirmation Hearing
The Caucus —
Wrap Up | 5:45 p.m. Updated Senator Clinton’s confirmation hearing before the Foreign Relations Committee today offered up an unusual array of individual and mutual aspirations and interests. First of which would be the shared – and dashed — presidential ambitions of four, if not more, senators involved in today’s proceeding. Some of Senator Clinton’s oft-stated goals uttered on the campaign trail were stated before the committee today as part of a broader mission promoted by the incoming Obama administration. But no fault lines were exposed between her views and those ...
Private Diplomacy
The American Spectator —
... Thus we had George coming on to
Hillary ("First of all, I want to thank you for the time we
spent on the telephone and also for your receiving a very lengthy
letter from me" -- luckily Bill's not the jealous type!) and then
distancing himself from her (Republican) predecessor ("And we all
know that our public diplomacy is at a low ebb. I think Secretary
Rice has tried to do a good job…. But, you know, once the water
goes over the dam, it's hard to bring it back up" -- Republicans,
in other words, can't afford to waste good water) and finally
putting in his ...
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Husband's charity clouds Clinton nomination —
Reuters: Politics 1/13/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Concerns about her husband's foreign fund-raising cast a shadow over Sen. Hillary Clinton's nomination as U.S. secretary of state when Republicans on Tuesday pressed her to do more to avoid conflicts of interest.
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