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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US Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice is resting, after successful, minimally invasive surgery. A senior administration official told VOA Dr.
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The US Senate confirms Robert Gates as the next defence secretary, replacing Donald Rumsfeld.
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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.
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The Senate Foreign Relations  Committee on Wednesday approved the nomination of Condoleezza  Rice to be secretary of state.
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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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WASHINGTON - President Bush this afternoon officially nominated Condoleezza Rice, his national security adviser and a longtime confidante, to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state.
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A Senate committee unanimously  approved President George W. Bush's choice for defense  secretary on Tuesday after he told the panel the United States  was not winning in Iraq and needed a new approach to end the  carnage and avert a possible region-wide war.
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President George Bush today appointed his most trusted foreign policy adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state.
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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 George W. Bush has tapped national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to be secretary of state. Rice will replace Colin Powell, who has resigned.
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Sam Bodman, President Bush's pick to be the next U.S. energy secretary, was approved on Wednesday by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
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An new era of uncompromising and perhaps harder line US foreign policy dawned yesterday as President Bush formally nominated Condoleezza Rice as his new Secretary of State, and promoted her former deputy, Stephen Hadley, to be national security adviser at
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld praised President Bush&#39;s two nominations today to the national security team: Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state and Steven Hadley as national security adviser.
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The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed  Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, as the new U.S.  ambassador to Iraq.
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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 said Friday she had ordered a "full and complete review" of security practices for U.S. diplomats following a deadly weekend incident in Iraq