And they wanted confirmation of one key policy in particular: a cull of badgers to combat bovine tuberculosis.
The fact that Strobe Talbott believes otherwise is just the latest confirmation of his defective judgement and policy advice.
Expectations for looser monetary policy were higher before the confirmation of the new Bank of Japan governor, with the change in leadership at the Bank of Japan expected to take place next week.
What remains to be seen and the Center for Security Policy earnestly hopes the Strauss confirmation hearings will reveal is whether or not the Ambassador and his friends in the Senate are prone to be "naively optimistic" in so reckless, and potentially dangerous, a fashion.
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What remains to be seen -- and the Center for Security Policy earnestly hopes the Strauss confirmation hearings will reveal -- is whether or not the Ambassador and his friends in the Senate are prone to be "naively optimistic" in so reckless, and potentially dangerous, a fashion.
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His confirmation also marks the failure of public cyberwar policy discourse in the United States.
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During his confirmation hearing, Lew signaled no major economic policy changes.
Long ago the United States decided the abm Treaty was bad policy, discovered major Soviet violations and received confirmation of the violations from Soviet officials themselves--yet no U.S. administration to this day, Republican or Democratic, has dared propose that we repeal the treaty.
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Now, it appears, rather than acquiesce to the appointment, confirmation and installation of someone who knows something about nuclear weapons policy and programs, Secretary Richardson is working with a sympathetic Democratic Senator Sen.
But then everybody knows that not cultivating Mr Helms, whose latest fit of pique is holding up the confirmation of America's ambassador to Mexico, would do foreign policy no good.
The consternation over Hagel's confirmation has been "kabuki theater, " said David Rothkopf, editor of Foreign Policy magazine.
Even before they became chairmen, both senators impeded the confirmation of some of President Bush's appointees who will be responsible for missile defense and arms-control policy in the State and Defense Departments.
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