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By Bryan Bender, Boston Globe Staff

WASHINGTON -- More than three decades after he first appeared before the
panel as a 27-year-old Vietnam veteran-turned-antiwar protester, Senator
John F. Kerry is widely expected to be named the new chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a position that will give him enormous
influence over international relations.

The pending announcement by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, which
congressional aides said could come as early as today, would elevate Kerry
to the top of the foreign policy establishment and give him a major role
in shaping President-elect Barack Obama's foreign policy priorities.

Kerry, 64, who was elected to a fifth term in the US Senate from
Massachusetts earlier this month, will be officially handed the gavel when
the new congressional session convenes in January, according to multiple
Capitol Hill sources. He will replace the outgoing chairman, Vice
President-elect Joe Biden.


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Delicious.

Whoopie. Big title. Little responsibility. No accountablilty. Business
as usual.

Eisboch




You are not aware of the power of a chair of a major Senate committee, I
suppose.