WASHINGTON (OfficialWire) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday swiftly and unanimously approved President Barack Obama’s choice of Sen. John Kerry to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state.
By voice vote, the panel approved the nomination of the five-term Massachusetts Democrat, who has been a member of the committee for 28 years and led it for the past four. The full Senate likely will vote on Tuesday afternoon.
Kerry did not attend the session in the ornate diplomatic room in the Capitol. In his absence, Democrats and Republicans praised Kerry and remarked on his extensive grasp of the issues during his confirmation hearing last Thursday.
“Long-winded,” joked Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a Kerry friend who had introduced the senator at that hearing.
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who succeeds Kerry as committee chairman, said the senator would be a “formidable secretary of state.”
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This person is liar, a tin soldier a tax cheat and a one-percenter. All he has and all he is came from his wife's money. The only redeeming factor that he has is that he could not possibly be any worse than hilary.
I can't believe with what Lurch said about the American soldiers and his actions during the Viet Nam war they confirmed this son of bitch.He is a traitor like Hanoi Jane Fonda.This man stored his sail boat in RI just not to pay Mass taxes.Iwould love to know who the 3 votes against him were.These are the kind of people that we are letting run the country.Where are the Swift Boaters.