According to foxnews.com...
Senators voting "nay" to putting Rice in charge of the State Department were Democrats Barbara Boxer of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts.
"According to foxnews.com...
Senators voting "nay" to putting Rice in charge of the State Department
were Democrats Barbara Boxer of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts."
FOX NEWS
Get the story right.
Only one nay vote, Boxer
Hanoi Kerry DOES NOT have a legal reason to vote.
U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States,
shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxiv.html