Senate panel backs Clinton as secretary of state
By ANNE FLAHERTY
Associated Press
January 15, 2009
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Clinton rejected Lugar's ideas, contending that her agreement to publish an annual list of the foundation's donors and alert ethics officials to potential conflicts of interest already goes above and beyond any ethics regulations.
Bill Clinton's charity, which financed his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., and efforts in dozens of countries to reduce poverty and treat AIDS, has relied on sizable donations from foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia.
After voting on Clinton's nomination, the Foreign Relations Committee heard testimony from Susan Rice, whom Obama has picked as U.N. ambassador and is considered a shoo-in for confirmation as well.
Rice told the panel that she understands Americans' frustration with the United Nations, which many say is corrupt and mismanaged. But, she said, terrorism, nuclear weapons, genocide, poverty, climate change and disease are "global challenges that no single nation can defeat alone." If confirmed, she said, she would work to strengthen the "indispensable if imperfect" institution.
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AP Writer Foster Klug contributed to this story.
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