WASHINGTON — Barring any new, damaging information, Chuck Hagel has secured the necessary votes for the Senate to confirm him to be the nation’s next defense secretary. A vote ending the bitter fight over President Obama’s choice for his revamped second-term, national security team is expected next week.
Hagel cleared the threshold when Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, a five-term Republican, said he would vote for the former GOP senator from Nebraska after joining other Republicans last week in an unprecedented filibuster of the Pentagon nominee.
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Previous Globe headline was "GOP Blocks Hagel Confirmation" even though the GOP had said that they were TEMPORARILY blocking his confirmation. ..... AP says "Barring any new, damaging information"..Yes, there IS Damaging, new information, which the Obama administration is hiding, and we will find out about LATER..What we already know now, is that Mr. Hagel will be the most INCOMPETENT Secretary of Defense ever, and he is committed to voluntarily reducing America's military power. To the absolute DELIGHT of China, Russia, North Korea, Egypt, Hamas, Hezbolla, and America's arch enemy, IRAN.....And speaking of Iran, Chuck Hagel gave a speech which was paid for by the Iranian governmernt, which made Mr. Hagel a lobbyist for an enemy government.
A great devotee of Fox News, aren't you?
"Barring any new, damaging information". Shouldn't that read "barring any factual damaging information"? Much of the GOP criticizm of the nomination was either based on fiction or not even related to the Department of Defense. If GW Bush had nominated Hagel for a cabinet position, he would have been approved unanimously, but Obama nominated him, so the phony theatre of outrage had to be staged.
ah no
At least Hagel won't attack Iran on Israel's command like Rumsfeld did to Iraq.
Bravo! And losing McCain as a friend is no loss at all, but a gain.
I don't know much about this man but I hope he'll bring a refreshing change in the course of our defense.
If Hagel's performance of stuttering, stammering, and inability to respond to questions during his confirmation hearing are any reflection of his knowledge _ we are in very serious trouble!
pathetic
Official documents, correspondence and other papers from the period of time Chuck Hagel held his U.S. Senate seat are closed to public viewing by the archives entrusted to hold them.
The lack of access has created yet another controversy around the embattled nominee to become the next defense secretary, raising questions among some about whether he might be hiding something in those files.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/21/politics/hagel-archives/