Senate Confirms Rice as Secretary of State
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Condoleezza Rice was confirmed as U.S. secretary of state on Wednesday as a large majority of senators swept aside objections from some Democrats who said she should be held accountable for mistakes in the Iraq war.
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Condoleezza Rice will include the Middle East in her first trip abroad as US secretary of state next week.
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WASHINGTON: President Bush on Tuesday nominated a trusted confidant, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state in his second term.
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Condoleezza Rice was confirmed as  secretary of state on Wednesday as a large majority of senators  swept aside objections from some Democrats that she be held  accountable for mistakes in the Iraq war.
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: Condoleezza Rice, President George W Bush&#39;s choice to be the next US Secretary of State, has undergone surgery to treat noncancerous growths in her uterus, a White House official said.
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Condoleezza Rice gave little ground to senators lambasting U.S. policies in Iraq on the first day of her confirmation hearing to be secretary of state and will return on Wednesday for a second round of questioning.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  firmly supports the European Union's emerging common foreign  policy and Washington will welcome further EU integration, the  Financial Times quoted her as saying on Friday.
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Senate Democrats said Tuesday that Condoleezza Rice lied to them, misled Americans about the Iraq war or served as an apologist for Bush administration failures in Iraq, but she remained on track for confirmation as secretary of state.
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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday  overwhelmingly confirmed Robert Gates as the next defense  secretary, replacing Donald Rumsfeld, an architect of the  increasingly unpopular Iraq war.
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Senior officials say President Bush plans to name National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state.
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President Bush on Tuesday nominated  a trusted confidant, national security adviser Condoleezza  Rice, to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state in Bush's  second term.
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee endorsed the nomination of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state on a 16 to 2 vote Wednesday after Democrats on the panel expressed deep frustration at her answers on Iraq and terrorism in two days of hearings.
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The U.S. Senate unanimously confirms Republican Kevin Martin for five more years at the agency's helm.
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The Senate has confirmed Francis Harvey as secretary of the Army. But ironically, Harvey was confirmed the same day Air Force Secretary James Roche (rohch) announced his resignation.
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President Bush is expected to nominate Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state today at 12:30 p.m. ET.
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National security adviser Condoleezza Rice is President Bush&#39;s choice to succeed Secretary of State Colin Powell, two senior administration officials tell CNN.
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A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday  approved the nomination of John Negroponte, the outgoing  director of national intelligence, to become deputy secretary  of state, sending the nomination to the full Senate.