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Update: Senate confirms former Senator for defense secretary

By: Nikki Henderson
Updated: February 26, 2013

MSNBC reports that the Senate has voted to confirm former Sen. Chuck Hagel as President Barack Obama's next Secretary of Defense.

Tuesday afternoon, the Senate voted 58 to 41 to formally confirm Hagel, on the heels of a procedural vote this morning that cleared the way for the final vote.

That earlier vote dispensed with a filibuster that Senate Republicans had waged for a week and a half against Hagel, whose confirmation was delayed by Republicans who were against his nomination.

A number of Republican Senators including John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire reversed their votes to allow the Hagel nomination to move forward.


 

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