Posted on 01/18/2005 4:38:21 AM PST by OXENinFLA
Secretary of State Nomination
Part I
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- Break -
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Place: 216 Hart Senate Office Building
Presiding: Senator Lugar
| Nominee: |
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 Dr. Condoleezza RiceTo be Secretary of State |
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| The Hearing will Commence on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 and will Continue, If Necessary, on the Following Day Wednesday, January 19, 2005. |
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Well, Trent Lott wasn't being racist when he was praising Strom Thurman, but the press and the dems sure twisted it that way. Turn about is far play.
It would be more accurate to say Kerry is moving on down! He's now part of the Boxer Wing!
Donna Brazile spoke of the pride she felt when Condi was nominated as SecState. This vote isn't going to go over too well among some of the 'Rat special interest groups.
If Kerry had been elected and he nominated Sheila Jackson-Lee for SecState, any attacks 1/10 as nasty as this committees would have caused the MSM to scream racism.
I'm surprised Biden didn't ask her to "sing some a dem old negro spirituals". Or maybe she should dance like they did for the "boss" back when dey was on the plantation?
The use of such a term by Biden says a lot about what he really thinks. Or, he is just plain mean or a complete idiot.
I'm going to take a page from the Democratic playbook and say that Biden is a racist. I'm outraged! Joe Biden basically called Condi Rice George W. Bushes "house ni@@er".
I'm saying what the Democrats would have said if anyone other than a Democrat would have used the same terms. JOE BIDEN IS A RACIST!
How dare Joe Biden use such language towards one of the finest people we have in Washington! How dare he suggest that an African-American woman call the president "boss" like some kind of negro servant.
Again, using the Democratic playbook I say BIDEN IS A RACIST!!!!
I don't understand why the Dems continue to utter statements that are so demonstrably false. Do they not understand that gone are the days of not being called on them?
They have someone TALKING...it is going to get interesting, to say the least.
Guilty plea opens door on oil-for-food scandal
WASHINGTON -- An Iraqi-American businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to collecting millions of dollars from the regime of dictator Saddam Hussein to act illegally as its agent in the United States, the first U.S. conviction in the United Nations oil-for-food program scandal.
The payments to Samir Vincent, 64, of Annandale, Va., included both cash and vouchers to sell at least 9 million barrels of Iraqi oil diverted from the oil-for-food program.
As part of his plea, Vincent agreed to cooperate in an ongoing Justice Department investigation into the oil-for-food program, according to Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft, who announced the pleas at a Washington news conference. Vincent faces up to 28 years in prison.
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CIA report was key
Vincent's name surfaced as a recipient of oil vouchers in an October 2004 CIA report on the program in which the intelligence agency found evidence that Hussein was using it to bribe key officials.
Since 1996, according to the report, Hussein generated an estimated $1.7 billion in kickbacks and other illegal surcharges, and since 1990, he pulled in about $11 billion, including revenue from illegal oil sales outside the oil-for-food program. Hussein was deposed in April 2003.
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Ashcroft said that Vincent worked as an unregistered Iraqi agent in the U.S. from 1992 through January 2003, trying to persuade the U.S. government and UN officials to lift sanctions against Iraq and pushing for an oil-for-food program when it came under international consideration in the mid-1990s.
Under U.S. law, representatives of foreign governments must register with the Justice Department. In 1999, Vincent organized a delegation of Iraqi religious leaders to visit the U.S. and meet with American religious leaders to discuss the effects of sanctions on Iraqis.
Among those who met with the Iraqis were evangelist Billy Graham, New York's then-cardinal, John O'Connor, and former President Jimmy Carter.
In November 2001, Vincent ferried a message from the Iraqi intelligence service to a former U.S. government official regarding the Hussein government's position on re-admitting weapons inspectors and repealing sanctions, according to court papers.
We're going to have a FR inauguration party thread tomorrow night, I hope! Inauguration, vote on Rice, party.
Yee haw (channeling a little Howard Dean in the spirit of bi-partisanship LOL)
Do these 'Rats strike you as being intelligent, aware or tied to reality?
Wow on the Volcker conflict. Thanks for posting a notice on this thread.
thanks, I was turning blue.
ditto. Thanks, everyone, for the up-t0-the-minute news for those of us office-bound.
Oil-for-food scandal investigator conflict of interest?
by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com
December 6, 2004
Paul Volcker, the man charged with the task of investigating the UN oil-for-food scandal, has by his association with the Montreal-based Power Corporation, a potential conflict of interest as chief scandal investigator.
Last April, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan authorized Volcker to investigate the oil-for-food program.
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Volcker, the former chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System, pledged "a thorough inquiry" into allegations of impropriety in the administration and management of the UN Iraq oil-for-food program.
That pledge was apparently made with an undisclosed conflict of interest. Handpicked for the job by Annan, the secretary general can hardly expect the outside world to have any confidence in Volcker as a credible independent investigator.
Volcker’s membership in David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission, identified by LizMichael.com as "a super-elite cabal of 300 international powerbrokers, who practically rule the world", but does not publish its membership list on the Internet, is well known.
Lesser known is that Volcker has held a seat on Power Corporation’s international advisory board.
Wealthy Canadian businessman and Power Corporation founder, Paul Desmarais Sr. is a major shareholder and director in TotalFinaElf, the largest oil corporation in France, which has held tens of billions of dollars in contracts with the deposed regime of Saddam Hussein.
France has been identified as one of the chief partners-in-corruption in the scandal. The Times of London calculated that French and Russian companies cashed in on $11-billion worth of business from oil-for-food between 1996 and 2003.
Given his ties to Power Corporation, how can Volcker deliver, as promised conduct "a thorough inquiry" into allegations of impropriety in the administration and management of the oil-for-food program?
Nope. not in the least.
Best thing we can hope for is Howard Dean as DNC chair. We will be looking at the beginning of the end for the Dims. Perhaps some of the real Democrats (a number of whom are actually worthy of respect) can take back the party.
the Dims just don't get that we the people now have the information at OUR fingertips. We can easily see through their crappola. They just don't have the ability to lie anymore w/o getting cought at it. What they really haven't gotten yet is they are loosing our trust (if there is any left) and our Respect. With out those things, they are doomed. The most pathetic part is that it is self inflicted!
Was Condi describing the size of Boxer's brain?
Oh I hope I can get everything done in time
I have special pajamas for the occasion :0)
"Who does Biden think Condi Rice is? Rochester from the old Jack Benny shows? "yez boss! yez boss"
I'm surprised Biden didn't ask her to "sing some a dem old negro spirituals". Or maybe she should dance like they did for the "boss" back when dey was on the plantation?
The use of such a term by Biden says a lot about what he really thinks. Or, he is just plain mean or a complete idiot.
I'm going to take a page from the Democratic playbook and say that Biden is a racist. I'm outraged! Joe Biden basically called Condi Rice George W. Bushes "house ni@@er".
I'm saying what the Democrats would have said if anyone other than a Democrat would have used the same terms. JOE BIDEN IS A RACIST!
How dare Joe Biden use such language towards one of the finest people we have in Washington! How dare he suggest that an African-American woman call the president "boss" like some kind of negro servant.
Again, using the Democratic playbook I say BIDEN IS A RACIST!!!!"
I agree with you, I thought it very disgusting.
I am writing to everyone I can think of, I think Ms. Rice deserves an apology.
Ping all your lists and demand an apology.
I love hearing Senators when they say they are only seeking out the truth.
The Clinton Impeachment Vote!
How the Senate voted....
Friday, Feb. 12, 1999
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, February 12)
The Senate acquitted President Bill Clinton Friday of both articles of impeachment.
The perjury charge was defeated with 55 "not guilty" votes and 45 "guilty" votes.
On the obstruction-of-justice article, the chamber was evenly split, 50-50.
Below is the roll call:
Perjury article Obstruction of justice article
Spencer Abraham
(R-Michigan) GUILTY GUILTY
Daniel K. Akaka
(D-Hawaii) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Wayne Allard
(R-Colorado) GUILTY GUILTY
John Ashcroft
(R-Missouri) GUILTY GUILTY
Max Baucus
(D-Montana) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Evan Bayh
(D-Indiana) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Robert F. Bennett
(R-Utah) GUILTY GUILTY
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
(D-Delaware) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Jeff Bingaman
(D-New Mexico) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Christopher S. Bond
(R-Missouri) GUILTY GUILTY
Barbara Boxer
(D-California) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
John B. Breaux
(D-Louisiana) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Sam Brownback
(R-Kansas) GUILTY GUILTY
Richard H. Bryan
(D-Nevada) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Jim Bunning
(R-Kentucky) GUILTY GUILTY
Conrad R. Burns
(R-Montana) GUILTY GUILTY
Robert C. Byrd
(D-West Virginia) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
(R-Colorado) GUILTY GUILTY
John H. Chafee
(R-Rhode Island) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Max Cleland
(D-Georgia) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Thad Cochran
(R-Mississippi) GUILTY GUILTY
Susan Collins
(R-Maine) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Kent Conrad
(D-North Dakota) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Paul Coverdell
(R-Georgia) GUILTY GUILTY
Larry E. Craig
(R-Idaho) GUILTY GUILTY
Michael D. Crapo
(R-Idaho) GUILTY GUILTY
Thomas A. Daschle
(D-South Dakota) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Mike DeWine
(R-Ohio) GUILTY GUILTY
Christopher J. Dodd
(D-Connecticut) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Pete V. Domenici
(R-New Mexico) GUILTY GUILTY
Byron L. Dorgan
(D-North Dakota) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Richard Durbin
(D-Illinois) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
John Edwards
(D-North Carolina) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Mike Enzi
(R-Wyoming) GUILTY GUILTY
Russell D. Feingold
(D-Wisconsin) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Dianne Feinstein
(D-California) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Peter G. Fitzgerald
(R-Illinois) GUILTY GUILTY
William H. Frist
(R-Tennessee) GUILTY GUILTY
Slade Gorton
(R-Washington) NOT GUILTY GUILTY
Bob Graham
(D-Florida) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Phil Gramm
(R-Texas) GUILTY GUILTY
Rod Grams
(R-Minnesota) GUILTY GUILTY
Charles Grassley
(R-Iowa) GUILTY GUILTY
Judd Gregg
(R-New Hampshire) GUILTY GUILTY
Chuck Hagel
(R-Nebraska) GUILTY GUILTY
Tom Harkin
(D-Iowa) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Orrin G. Hatch
(R-Utah) GUILTY GUILTY
Jesse Helms
(R-North Carolina) GUILTY GUILTY
Ernest F. Hollings
(D-South Carolina) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Tim Hutchinson
(R-Arkansas) GUILTY GUILTY
Kay Bailey Hutchison
(R-Texas) GUILTY GUILTY
James M. Inhofe
(R-Oklahoma) GUILTY GUILTY
Daniel K. Inouye
(D-Hawaii) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
James M. Jeffords
(R-Vermont) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Tim Johnson
(D-South Dakota) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Edward M. Kennedy
(D-Massachusetts) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
J. Robert Kerrey
(D-Nebraska) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
John F. Kerry
(D-Massachusetts) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Herb Kohl
(D-Wisconsin) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Jon Kyl
(R-Arizona) GUILTY GUILTY
Mary Landrieu
(D-Louisiana) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Frank R. Lautenberg
(D-New Jersey) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Patrick J. Leahy
(D-Vermont) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Carl Levin
(D-Michigan) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Joseph I. Lieberman
(D-Connecticut) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Blanche Lambert Lincoln
(D-Arkansas) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Trent Lott
(R-Mississippi) GUILTY GUILTY
Richard G. Lugar
(R-Indiana) GUILTY GUILTY
Connie Mack
(R-Florida) GUILTY GUILTY
John McCain
(R-Arizona) GUILTY GUILTY
Mitch McConnell
(R-Kentucky) GUILTY GUILTY
Barbara A. Mikulski
(D-Maryland) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
(D-New York) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Frank H. Murkowski
(R-Alaska) GUILTY GUILTY
Patty Murray
(D-Washington) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Don Nickles
(R-Oklahoma) GUILTY GUILTY
Jack Reed
(D-Rhode Island) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Harry Reid
(D-Nevada) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Charles S. Robb
(D-Virginia) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Pat Roberts
(R-Kansas) GUILTY GUILTY
John D. Rockefeller IV
(D-West Virginia) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
William V. Roth Jr.
(R-Delaware) GUILTY GUILTY
Rick Santorum
(R-Pennsylvania) GUILTY GUILTY
Paul S. Sarbanes
(D-Maryland) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Charles E. Schumer
(D-New York) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Jeff Sessions
(R-Alabama) GUILTY GUILTY
Richard C. Shelby
(R-Alabama) NOT GUILTY GUILTY
Bob Smith
(R-New Hampshire) GUILTY GUILTY
Gordon Smith
(R-Oregon) GUILTY GUILTY
Olympia J. Snowe
(R-Maine) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Arlen Specter
(R-Pennsylvania) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Ted Stevens
(R-Alaska) NOT GUILTY GUILTY
Craig Thomas
(R-Wyoming) GUILTY GUILTY
Fred Thompson
(R-Tennessee) NOT GUILTY GUILTY
Strom Thurmond
(R-South Carolina) GUILTY GUILTY
Robert Torricelli
(D-New Jersey) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
George V. Voinovich
(R-Ohio) GUILTY GUILTY
John W. Warner
(R-Virginia) NOT GUILTY GUILTY
Paul D. Wellstone
(D-Minnesota) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
Ron Wyden
(D-Oregon) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY
It might be best not to listen to Laura while driving this week. They will skewer these windbags so bad it will be hazardous to your driving health.
"Who does Biden think Condi Rice is? Rochester from the old Jack Benny shows? "yez boss! yez boss"
I'm surprised Biden didn't ask her to "sing some a dem old negro spirituals". Or maybe she should dance like they did for the "boss" back when dey was on the plantation?
The use of such a term by Biden says a lot about what he really thinks. Or, he is just plain mean or a complete idiot.
I'm going to take a page from the Democratic playbook and say that Biden is a racist. I'm outraged! Joe Biden basically called Condi Rice George W. Bushes "house ni@@er".
I'm saying what the Democrats would have said if anyone other than a Democrat would have used the same terms. JOE BIDEN IS A RACIST!
How dare Joe Biden use such language towards one of the finest people we have in Washington! How dare he suggest that an African-American woman call the president "boss" like some kind of negro servant.
Again, using the Democratic playbook I say BIDEN IS A RACIST!!!!"
I agree with you, I thought it very disgusting.
I am writing to everyone I can think of, I think Ms. Rice deserves an apology.
Ping all your lists and demand an apology.
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