Posted on December 2nd, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry released the following statement this evening following President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan:
“I believe that the President defined a narrower mission tonight, not an open-ended nation-building exercise. A key component of that mission is providing that the troops will only clear and hold in places where there is capacity [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
In a speech delivered to the Council on Foreign Relations this afternoon, Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said, General McChrystal’s troop request for Afghanistan “reaches too far, too fast.”
Although Kerry may eventually support a troop surge in Afghanistan he said that “before additional troops are deployed to the country, three [...]
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Posted on October 18th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
In an interview that aired this morning on CNN, Senator John Kerry cautioned President Obama “against raising troop levels in Afghanistan, saying it would be “entirely irresponsible” to do so while the Afghan government remains in turmoil following national elections.”
Speaking from Afghanistan, Kerry, who is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the [...]
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Posted on October 8th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill honored the Dalai Lama with a human rights award on Tuesday.
The Dalai Lama said the award encourages him, at 74, to dedicate the rest of his life to the “promotion of human affection and compassion, and equality and basic human rights in Tibet, or in mainland China, or everywhere.”
Nancy Pelosi, the [...]
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Posted on October 1st, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
There’s speculation in the WaPo today that Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, may be prepared to “buck” the Obama Administration if his “fact-finding leads him to conclude that Afghanistan could turn into another Vietnam.”
Video of Kerry’s interview with Lois Romano of the WaPo is available here and the transcript of [...]
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Posted on June 16th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
The White House issued a landmark climate report today that contained an assessment of “documented and expected” climate change impacts across the United States.
“This report provides the concrete scientific information that says unequivocally that climate change is happening now and it’s happening in our own backyards and it affects the kind of things people care about,” Jane Lubchenco, [...]
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Posted on April 10th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
On Wednesday, I noted here on The Dem Daily that pirates had seized an American ship off the coast of Somalia. The crew of the ship “later overpowered some of the pirates,” but Capt. Richard Phillips of Underhill, Vt. ”surrendered himself to the bandits to safeguard his men, and four of the Somalis fled with him to [...]
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Posted on April 7th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
U.S. officials announced on Monday that Senator John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will lead a delegation to Sudan’s Darfur region, “in a possible sign of a growing willingness to engage with Khartoum.”
The U.S. diplomatic source said Kerry, a Democrat, would lead a Congressional delegation to Darfur, and would meet senior Sudanese [...]
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Posted on February 10th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, John Kerry has a must read OP/ED in today’s WaPo on Afghanistan. Taylor wrote here yesterday about some of the latest news on Afghanistan.
Kerry has been passionately speaking out on Afghanistan for years now. In a speech in 2006, he “argued that more troops were needed” there and he [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chaired a Senate panel on Climate today with Al Gore offering key testimony. As chairman of the SFRC and a long time environmental activist, Kerry is posed to be “an influential player” in the efforts to forge ”a treaty and reshape U.S. policy on climate issues.”
Sen. Kerry’s [...]
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