Key Democratic senator to vote against Pompeo for secretary of state
U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said on Wednesday he would oppose President Donald Trump's nomination of CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be secretary of state, in a blow to the nomination.In a speech to a Washington think tank, Menendez criticized the Trump administration, and Pompeo in particular, for lacking a strategic vision across the foreign policy spectrum."I believe our nation's top diplomat must be forthright, and more critically his past s
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