Senate Foreign Relations hearing of Dr. Condoleezza Rice to be Sec.of State. [LIVE Thread - Day 2] (

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[OXENinFLA]

Secretary of State Nomination
Part I

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HEARING
before the

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION

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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

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Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- Break -
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: 216 Hart Senate Office Building
Presiding: Senator Lugar

 
 

Nominee:

Dr. Condoleezza Rice
    To be Secretary of State

The Hearing will Commence on Tuesday, January
    18, 2005 and will Continue, If Necessary, on the

    Following Day Wednesday, January 19, 2005.
    Immediately Following the Conclusion of Hearing,
    the Chairman Will Convene a Business Meeting to
    Vote on the Nomination.

[gortklattu]

OH, Gawd....these people are using this hearing to promote themselves

[Quilla]

You were right, Kerry's a no show!

[Bahbah]

Yeah these people look like they don't want us there...

Those soldiers look like pretty good diplomats to me.

[TomGuy]

[McGruff]

When is this on, all I hear is a press conference by some guy with straw hair?

[SoFloFreeper]

Plugs urges us to reach out to 1.2 billion Muslims. We have freed 50,000,000 of them the past couple years, Plugs. Maybe you missed that.

[NautiNurse]

Oh joy--Fineswine gets to deliver a second intro. At least this is starting out to be a decent bio of Condi.

[cyncooper]

Diane Feinstein giving a very nice introduction of Rice.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Diane Frankenstien: "She's a credit to her race..."

[fso301]

Look at Feinsteins shoulders, covered with dandruff.

[areafiftyone]

Thanks!

[gopwinsin04]

Notre Dame!

[gortklattu]

Dianne stuttered....it's Bush's fault.

[Just mythoughts]

Literally telling Condi's life history.

[filbert]

OH, Gawd....these people are using this hearing to promote themselves

And this is different than any other Senate hearing how?

[NautiNurse]

OMG! she can't pronounce Czech Republic.

[Quilla]

I always knew she was flaky!

[TomGuy]

Feinstein has been around Kennedy too much too --- Cheyoslo, Checklovo, Czehchoc, Omahalavacia...

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Diane F: "Checko...Chocko...Chokehold...Choking..."

[SoFloFreeper]

A bit from the Associated Press about what happened before the start of the hearing:

Condoleezza Rice pledged Tuesday to work to mend ties with allies frayed by the war in Iraq. "The time for diplomacy is now," she told senators at her confirmation hearing to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state.

Rice insisted that the administration's actions in the aftermath of Sept. 11, including wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, were "difficult, and necessary and right."

She promised to work to strengthen ties with old and new allies.

And, she said in prepared testimony, "If confirmed, I will work with members of Congress, from both sides of the aisle, to build a strong bipartisan consensus behind America's foreign policy."