{"id":19343,"date":"2013-01-31T15:06:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19343"},"modified":"2013-01-31T15:06:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:06:39","slug":"senate-confirms-john-kerry-nomination-for-secretary-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19343","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms John Kerry Nomination For Secretary Of State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0 \u2014 The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed<strong> President Barack Obama\u2019s<\/strong> choice of five-term <strong>Sen. John Kerry<\/strong> to be secretary of state, with Republicans and Democrats praising him as the ideal successor to<strong> Hillary Rodham Clinton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The vote Tuesday was 94-3. One senator \u2014 <strong>Kerry<\/strong> \u2014 voted present and accepted congratulations from colleagues on the Senate floor. The roll call came just hours after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved the man who has led the panel for the past four years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kerry <\/strong>was sworn in Wednesday. A welcoming ceremony is planned at the State Department on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> tapped <strong>Kerry<\/strong>, 69, the son of a diplomat, decorated Vietnam veteran and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, to succeed <strong>Clinton<\/strong>, who is stepping down after four years. The Massachusetts Democrat, who had pined for the job but was passed over in 2009, has served as<strong> Pres. Obama\u2019s<\/strong> unofficial envoy, smoothing fractious ties with Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0 \u2014 The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed President Barack Obama\u2019s choice of five-term Sen. John Kerry to be secretary of state, with Republicans and Democrats praising him as the ideal successor to Hillary Rodham Clinton. The vote Tuesday was 94-3. One senator \u2014 Kerry \u2014 voted present and accepted congratulations from colleagues on the Senate floor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}