Live blog: Carter and more at important SFRC hearing today

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Tuesday May 12, 2009 · 10:30 AM PDT

2009/05/12 · 10:30

Today, Senator Kerry will chair a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing at 2 pm - "ENERGY SECURITY: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES AND MODERN CHALLENGES". When Senator Kerry ran for President in 2004, he spoke at every rally about how developing the technology and products to transition to alternative fuels would be good for the economy because it would create good new jobs, would lead to clean air and water, would lead to improved health, and was necessary to our national security to eliminate our dependence on oil partly from the unstable Middle East.

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Wednesday February 27, 2008 · 7:50 AM PST

2008/02/27 · 07:50

The attack that Senator Hillary Clinton made in yesterday's debate for not conducting hearings on Afghanistan is a cheap shot. She said:

CLINTON: And I believe this is in the best interest. But I also
have heard Senator Obama refer continually to Afghanistan, and he
references being on the Foreign Relations Committee.

He chairs the subcommittee on Europe. It has jurisdiction over
NATO. NATO is critical to our mission in Afghanistan. He's held not
one substantive hearing to do oversight, to figure out what we can do
to actually have a stronger presence with NATO in Afghanistan.

You have to look at the entire situation to try to figure out how
we can stabilize Afghanistan and begin to put more in there to try to
get some kind of success out of it. And you have to..."

http://blogs.suntimes.com/...

In fact, it would have been showboating for the Chair of the SFRC sub committee on Europe to have held hearings on Afghanistan, because NATO is headquartered there. Afghanistan is not in Europe.

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