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By Sridhar Krishnaswami
WASHINGTON, JAN. 20 . In a snub to the White House, Senate Democrats have said they will not vote on the nomination of the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, today. Dr. Rice cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday 16 to 2 and indications were that a floor vote in the Senate would be scheduled for Thursday so that the President, George W Bush, could have his senior Cabinet official in place at the State Department. Now this full Senate vote is not expected until next week. "There are a number of Democrats not on the Committee that want to have a chance to debate her nomination a couple of hours," a spokesman for the Senate Democratic Leader, Harry Reid, said. The senior Democratic Senator, Robert Byrd, has said they need more time to review the testimony which was spread over two days. A Republican Senator, George Allen, has termed the Democrats' attitude as "absurd and petty obstructionism" and said it would set the wrong tone at the beginning of a new administration. Dr. Rice faced intense questioning by Democratic Senators, many of whom saw Iraq as an instance of the Bush administration unwilling to come to terms squarely with the American people. As the former National security Adviser and close confidante of the President, Democrats wished to know the precise role she played in the policy formulations on Iraq. "I find it so troubling that the Bush administration used the fear of terror to make the war against Iraq appear to be part of the response to 9/11. You were involved in that effort," Senator Barbara Boxer told Dr. Rice. "It's about candour. It's about telling the full story."
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