ALBRIGHT NOMINATION PASSES FIRST MUSTER.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Madeleine Albright Madeleine Korbel Albright (born May 15 1937) was the first woman to become United States Secretary of State. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on December 5 1996 and was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate 99-0. She was sworn in on January 23 1997. won unanimous approval Monday from the Senate Foreign Relations Foreign relations may refer to:
Albright, the first of President Clinton's new Cabinet nominees to pass Senate committee scrutiny, will become the nation's first female secretary of state. The Senate is to take up her nomination Wednesday. During a Jan. 8 confirmation hearing, the committee, chaired by Sen. Jesse Helms Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. (born October 18, 1921) is a former five-term Republican U.S. Senator from North Carolina, and a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was considered one of the leading figures of the modern "Christian right". , R-N R-N Raion (Russian, district; used in postal addresses) .C., questioned Albright for almost eight hours. On Friday, she submitted the answers to 215 additional written questions asked by members of the panel after the hearing. Although much of the questioning was amicable, Albright appeared to antagonize Helms by insisting that Congress increase the foreign operations budget and pay the $1.4 billion the United States owes the United Nations. Helms, a leading budget-cutter who has conditioned payments to the world body on sweeping reforms in its organization, responded by saying he believed Albright was ``sincerely wrong.'' Still, the spat did not seem to affect Albright's chances for confirmation by the Republican-controlled Congress. |
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