1.24.2005
Democrats Stall Vote on Rice Confirmation (USATODAY.com)
23 January 2005
WASHINGTON (AP) — An important part of President Bush's second-term plans went slightly off the rails during an inauguration week that ran pretty much on time.
If the White House had its way, Condoleezza Rice would have been confirmed by the Senate as secretary of state on Thursday, when Bush took the oath of office and gave his inaugural address. Rice easily won a vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but Democrats stalled a vote by the full Senate on her nomination.
The delay probably says something about Rice's sometimes indignant responses to tough questions during two days of confirmation hearings last week, and something about the hair-trigger atmosphere in the highly polarized Congress, said Paul C. Light, a New York University professor and fellow at the Brookings Institution.
(More ... USATODAY.com - Democrats stall vote on Rice confirmation) ¶ 21:56
WASHINGTON (AP) — An important part of President Bush's second-term plans went slightly off the rails during an inauguration week that ran pretty much on time.
If the White House had its way, Condoleezza Rice would have been confirmed by the Senate as secretary of state on Thursday, when Bush took the oath of office and gave his inaugural address. Rice easily won a vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but Democrats stalled a vote by the full Senate on her nomination.
The delay probably says something about Rice's sometimes indignant responses to tough questions during two days of confirmation hearings last week, and something about the hair-trigger atmosphere in the highly polarized Congress, said Paul C. Light, a New York University professor and fellow at the Brookings Institution.
(More ... USATODAY.com - Democrats stall vote on Rice confirmation) ¶ 21:56
