Clinton would be the 67th Secretary of State. She replaces Condoleezza Rice of the previous Bush Administration. Earlier in the day, the full Senate had a debate followed by a roll call vote on her nomination as Secretary of State.
As expected, she was confirmed by 94 votes to two. The roll call vote was held a day after the Republican Senator from Texas John Cornyn blocked the voice vote on Tuesday demanding that the Clintons should be more transparent about the non-profit Clinton Foundation headed by his husband and the former President Bill Clinton.
Earlier participating in the debate, Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Clinton demonstrated an impressive grasp of the numerous, complex foreign policy issues US faces and showed why she will make such a formidable Secretary of State.
Never miss a story! The former president signed an agreement with the Obama transition team pledging to limit foreign donations and to release annual disclosures of new donations to his foundation. Clinton is qualified to be secretary of state or not. She is," Cornyn said.
Clinton or our admiration for the many good works of the Clinton Foundation blind us to the danger of perceived conflicts of interest caused by the [foundation's] solicitation of hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign and some domestic sources," he said.
Clinton was defended by Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, who used his first floor speech since the end of the presidential campaign to urge his colleagues to confirm her quickly as secretary of state. Clinton, who is obviously qualified and obviously will serve, get to work immediately. McCain confidantes told CNN that the senator developed a genuinely deep admiration for Clinton during the drawn-out Democratic primary process.
Both senators also sit on the Armed Services Committee and had become close on several congressional delegation trips abroad. The State Department, under Clinton's leadership, came under investigation after a deadly attack on a U. An independent panel issued a report about the Benghazi attack, which found "systematic failures and leadership and management deficiencies" at the State Department. Clinton, who said she took responsibility for security at the outpost in Benghazi, was scheduled to testify about the attack before Congress in December She canceled her scheduled testimony, however, citing a stomach virus and, later, a concussion that she suffered after fainting the cause of which was later reported as dehydration.
Some members of Congress questioned the timing of her illnesses, including Representative Allen West, who stated that he believed the secretary of state was suffering from "a case of Benghazi flu" on the day she was scheduled to testify. On December 30, , Clinton was hospitalized with a blood clot related to the concussion that she had suffered earlier in the month. She was released from a New York hospital on January 2, , after receiving treatment, and soon recovered and returned to work.
Clinton testified about the Benghazi attack on January 23, Speaking to members of the House Foreign Relations Committee, she defended her actions while taking full responsibility for the incident, which killed four American citizens. She added, "I am determined to leave the State Department and our country safer, stronger and more secure. After taking office in , she repeatedly stated that she was only interested in serving one term as secretary of state.
She stepped down from her post on February 1, Clinton testified in front of the committee on October 22, , in a nearly hour hearing.
The just over page report found no new evidence of wrongdoing on her part, but was critical of "government agencies like the Defense Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department — and the officials who led them — for failing to grasp the acute security risks in the Libyan city, and especially for maintaining outposts in Benghazi that they could not protect," according to The New York Times.
In , the Clintons' daughter Chelsea married former Goldman Sachs investment banker and current hedge fund manager Marc Mezvinksy. On September 26, , Clinton became a first-time grandmother when daughter Chelsea gave birth to Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky.
After much speculation and assumptions over whether she would run for the U. On April 12, her campaign chairperson John D. Podesta announced via email that the former secretary of state was entering the race to secure the Democratic presidential nomination for the elections.
This was immediately followed by an online campaign clip , with Clinton herself announcing that she was running for president. On her campaign site, Clinton addressed a wide variety of issues: lowering student debt, criminal justice reform, campaign finance reform, improving the healthcare coverage and costs of the Affordable Care Act a.
Obamacare , and women's rights. However, the candidate was also known for her changing stances on various hot button issues, including her evolving support of gay marriage and her souring on the Trans Pacific Partnership. In regard to the environment, Clinton had a plan to combat climate change but also faced questions from environmental activists for supporting fracking.
She also supported the death penalty but claimed it should be implemented in exceptional cases. In early March , Clinton faced controversy and criticism when it was revealed that she had used her personal email address to handle official governmental business during her time as secretary of state.
In a news conference held at the United Nations, speaking initially on gender equality and the political situation in Iran, Clinton stated that she had utilized her personal email for convenience as allowed by state department protocol. She later turned over all governmental correspondence to the Obama administration while deleting messages that could be construed as personal.
In May , the State Department issued a statement regarding Clinton's ongoing email scandal. The department criticized her for not seeking permission to use a private email server and also stated it would not have approved it if she had. The page report, along with a separate FBI investigation and other legal matters that involved her private email account, exacerbated Clinton's controversial political reputation and became fodder for Republican officials.
A bipartisan group of almost one hundred former federal prosecutors and Justice Department officials also signed a letter criticizing Comey. On November 6, just two days before the election, Comey wrote another letter to Congress stating that Clinton should not face criminal charges after a review of the new emails.
On June 6, , Clinton was hailed as the presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party and the first woman in the United States' year history "to top the presidential ticket of a major U. The assessment was based on Clinton winning the support of a combination of pledged delegates and superdelegates needed to win the nomination. On June 7, the night of the final Super Tuesday primary, Clinton delivered a speech from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, acknowledging the historic achievement.
It was eight years to the day since she had conceded her loss to Barack Obama in the presidential race. In our country, it started right here in New York, a place called Seneca Falls in where a small but determined group of women and men came together with the idea that women deserved equal rights and they set it forth in something called the Declaration of Sentiments and it was the first time in human history that that kind of declaration occurred.
So we all owe so much to those who came before and tonight belongs to all of you. She was born on June 4th, and some of you may know the significance of that date. On the very day my mother was born in Chicago, Congress was passing the 19th amendment to the constitution. That amendment finally gave women the right to vote.
And I really wish my mother could be here tonight I wish she could see her daughter become the Democratic party's nominee. And there is no doubt in my mind that, as we head into November, Hillary Clinton is far and away the best candidate to do that. On July 22, , Clinton announced via text message to her supporters that she had selected Tim Kaine, a Virginia senator and former Virginia governor and mayor, as her vice presidential running mate.
In July , on the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Wikileaks published over nineteen thousand DNC emails that revealed how officials seemingly favored Clinton over Sanders and sought to undermine his campaign. The leak also showed the bitter tension between DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Sanders' campaign manager Jeff Weaver, the collusion between the DNC and the media, and the ways in which officials persuade big money donors. As a result of the leak, Wasserman Schultz announced she would not be speaking at the convention and would step down as DNC chair.
During this time, an FBI investigation was underway to discover who was responsible for the leaks, although intelligence was already pointing to Russia being behind the cyberattacks. The release of the emails by Wikileaks during the Democratic National Convention was a blow to what party officials had hoped would be a time to unify and energize their base of supporters. The scandal reinvigorated the ire of Sanders' supporters, many of whom felt the DNC had rigged the election for Clinton from the start.
Nonetheless, even amid protests, Clinton received an array of support from political allies, delegates, celebrities and everyday citizens in a series of convention speeches, including Barack and Michelle Obama , actresses Meryl Streep and Elizabeth Banks and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. After being introduced by daughter Chelsea, Clinton utilized the DNC's final night to officially accept her party's nomination for president, a historic achievement for women in the U.
In September , The Arizona Republic made a surprising announcement: it was endorsing a Democrat for the first time in its publication's history.
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