Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) wants to know: how to responsibly withdraw from Iraq in the 16-month timetable President-elect Barack Obama laid out during the primaries?
“In the context of the Status of Forces Agreement,” Clinton answers, conceding that “there are some differences in timing.” That’s an understatement: all U.S. forces More…
Wow. Now Clinton is speaking about how to restructure the State Department to better share the burden with the Pentagon.
The U.S. Agency for International Development has been “decimated,” she says, “and turned into more of a contractor agency,” even though interlocutors like Bob Gates and foreign leaders need USAID’s More…
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) asks how the department will have “the culture, the morale” and the resources necessary to succeed. Back to Adm. Mullen’s point.
Clinton picks up on it. “In consultation with the president-elect, the vice president-elect and the members of this committee” she decided to fill a long-vacant More…
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) says he thinks Clinton “will succeed.” But he’s the one making the uncomfortable statements about the Clinton Foundation. “It’s a speck in relation to the huge magnitude of efforts you can put forth on behalf of the government,” he says, but “there’s just no need to More…
Kerry asks about Iran. Sounds surprisingly hawkish. What are the “big carrots and the big sticks” that the Obama administration will use to get Iran in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty? Why will they work? What else is needed?
Clinton: Iran is a “great concern,” both on nuclear questions — More…
Clinton, in her own words. Let’s do this liveblog-style.
On Sen. John Kerry: “I join in offering my congratulations… You have traveled quite a distance [since] your testimony as a young Vietnam veteran. You have never faltered in your care and your concern for our nation… America is in More…
In case anyone had any doubt that Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ascension to her new job is a foregone conclusion, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, just referred to working with Clinton “when she is secretary of state.” Lugar added that Clinton is “the More…
And we’re underway. Hillary Clinton is gladhandling in the Hart Senate Office Buiding. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) — who wanted to be where Clinton is this morning – is classy in his introduction. “We have an individual with the global stature and influence to help shape events,” Kerry says. More…
Follow Spencer’s coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s confirmation hearings here.
Rarely does the president of the United States nominate a bit player for secretary of state. Colin Powell, secretary from 2001 to 2005, was the foremost Army officer of his generation. Warren Christopher, secretary from 1993 to More…
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