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Reid: Blocking of Hagel ‘one of the saddest spectacles I have witnessed’
US Senate Republicans successfully blocked Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be President Barack Obama’s next Pentagon chief on Thursday, forcing a 10-day delay in his confirmation vote. By a vote of 58-40 with one member voting present, Democrats failed to overcome a procedural roadblock put up by Republicans who had demanded…
Chuck Hagel’s Senate hearing: Testy exchanges on key foreign policy issues
Chuck Hagel was forced to make repeated justifications of his positions on Iran, Israel and the Iraq war at a Senate confirmation hearing as Barack Obama’s next secretary of defense. The former senator was accused of holding “extreme views” and endangering US security, in testy exchanges before the armed services…
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