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Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) will join his fellow members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for a routine confirmation hearing on January 24, but this time he won’t be holding the gavel.  Instead, as President Obama’s nominee to be the next secretary of state, Sen. Kerry will take questions from t...

This is a joint post with John Norris of the Center for American Progress. Budget concerns will almost certainly put downward pressure on federal spending across a host of government programs for a number of years. Although some think it is almost heretical to point out the obvious, the inte...