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According to the Weekly Standard, Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel continues to block access to his archive at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. There are piles of papers, speeches, and multimedia by or about Hagel at the university. Yet reporters

Pew Research released a poll today that should give the White House cause for concern as the days tick by before Senator Chuck Hagel’s senate confirmation vote to become Defense Secretary. The more the public gets to know Hagel, the

On November 8, 2007, then Senator Chuck Hagel spoke to the Center for Strategic and International studies Commission on Smart Power. The topic was about U.S.-Iran relations. “None of us in public office today, the Administration, Congress or Presidential candidates,

PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff is angry and looking to hold someone accountable for the delay in the confirmation of Chuck Hagel as Obama’s next Secretary of Defense. Last week Woodruff demanded to know if anyone was going to “pay

When then-Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) delivered a controversial speech in March 2007 at Rutgers University, he did so at the invitation of Hooshang Amirahmadi, an officially-approved candidate for the presidency of Iran in 2013 and advocate for the Tehran regime,

(Reuters) – A senior Republican senator said on Sunday that party colleagues will drop tactics to delay a vote on former Senator Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary, saying that President Barack Obama’s nominee likely has sufficient support to be

Former Sen. Chuck Hagel may not enjoy wide national support, but he has the strong support of America’s antisemites, if HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher is any indication.  And leading Democrats, like Democratic National Committee vice chair Donna Brazile,

Is Chuck Hagel really the target of a witch-hunt? Here is what one prominent Senator had to say about the process:  You know that we had a committee meeting to vote him out [i.e. to the full Senate]. You know

You’ll hear it all over cable news and the networks and in every lede paragraph from the Washington Post to the LA Times: Republicans are conducting an unprecedented filibuster of Chuck Hagel.   Where did the media get this buzz word that’s

Following the Republican filibuster of Sec. of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel, a shocked Harry Reid (D-NV) said he was going to call Hagel and apologize over the fact that the confirmation had been stopped. Said Reid: They are filibustering him.

Republican Senators have the necessary 41 votes to block the confirmation of Chuck Hagel from coming to a vote this week, and will be able to stage a filibuster, according to an interview given by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) to

New evidence has emerged that a 2008 address to the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) by former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), President Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, was in fact a formal speech, contrary to the claims of the

With Chuck Hagel’s nomination for Sec. of Defense heading to a floor vote on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal has uncovered Sen. Carl Levin’s (D-Mich.) dual standards for confirming cabinet nominees.  For example, when President George W. Bush nominated John

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Armed Services Committee Chair Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) had a stringent exchange during the committee hearing today discussing the confirmation of Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel. Cruz argued that Hagel had failed to provide

Senator Ted Cruz gave a detailed rebuttal to the proposed confirmation of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense. Cruz outlined Hagel’s failure to comply with the requests of the Armed Services Committee and his questionable statements and votes in his

In today’s debate in the Senate Armed Services Committee over the confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) engaged in heated debate with committee chair Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) over the question of whether Hagel had

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the former Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has told the committee that he will vote not to send the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to the full Senate for confirmation, citing

In 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama promised that he would “eliminate North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.” His campaign manifesto, Change We Can Believe In, described Obama’s North Korea policy, and the philosophy behind it, in great detail: North Korea is an

Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has announced that he has scheduled a committee vote Tuesday on the confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to the post of Secretary of Defense. Sen. John

The unaired Saturday Night Live skit about Sen. Chuck Hagel’s (R-NE) feelings toward Israel….

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, plans to seek a vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination as President Barack Obama’s new secretary of defense during a meeting on Tuesday afternoon, the committee said

Obama is gearing up to sign off “on an internal review of U.S. nuclear weapons strategy” that contains a directive cutting our nuclear arsenal by a third.  The directive was created last year, and reports indicate that political advisers in

Amid reports that former Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) may be withdrawing his name from consideration for Secretary of Defense, one of Hagel’s aides has issued a clear statement: “There is absolutely no truth to the notion that Senator Hagel might

Former Sen. Chuck Hagel’s confirmation hearing for Defense Secretary late last month drew gasps from Beltway insiders. How could a candidate for such an important position be so comically unprepared, so unable to defend himself against a series of tough

The Atlantic Council, chaired by former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), released a list late Friday evening of corporate donors as well as foreign governments that had funded it over the past five years.  The list did not shed light on

If the chances of Chuck Hagel withdrawing his nomination as Secretary of Defense are truly “50-50,” as Thomas E. Ricks of Foreign Policy suggests, then time is running out for Democrats to push a vote through the Senate. With each passing

Democrats’ latest defense of Chuck Hagel, whose confirmation as Secretary of Defense has bogged down in the Senate Armed Services Committee, is the argument that the Republicans are holding Hagel to a higher standard than any previous nominee. In fact,

Breitbart News Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro reported Thursday that Senate sources believe that one reason Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel has not submitted requested financial disclosures is that one of his funders is called “Friends of Hamas.” While the White