Panel Senat AS setujui pencalonan Hagel sebagai Menhan

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Washington (ANTARA News) - Sebuah panel Senat Amerika Serikat pada Selasa menyetujui Chuck Hagel sebagai Menteri Pertahanan yang baru di bawah kepemimpinan Presiden Barack Obama.

Dengan demikian, pencalonan Hagel bergerak maju untuk mendapatkan persetujuan di tingkat berikutnya, yaitu Senat secara keseluruhan, untuk mendapatkan pengukuhan sebagai menteri pertahanan melalui mekanisme pemungutan suara, yang kemungkinan berlangsung pekan ini, lapor Reuters.

Komite Angkatan Bersenjata Senat dalam pemungutan suara mereka menghasilkan suara dukungan 14 berbading 11 bagi pencalonan Hagel --mantan senator Republik dari Nebraska-- untuk menggantikan Leon Panetta sebagai pemimpin Pentagon.

Senator Republik dari Louisiana, David Vitter, tidak memberikan suaranya ataupun meninggalkan pesan apapun. Namun suara yang ia punyai tetap tidak mengubah hasil pemungutan.

Pencalonan Hagel (66) diwarnai dengan keberatan dari sejumlah anggota Senat sesama anggota Partai Republik, yang mempertanyakan apakah ia cukup suportif terhadap Israel dan keras terhadap Iran.

Ketua komite, Senator Carl Levin dari Demokrat, mengatakan kepada para wartawan bahwa ia berharap pemungutan suara di tingkat Senat akan berlangsung pada akhir pekan ini.

Kendati demikian, ia mengatakan hari pemungutan suara bisa bergeser jika kubu Republik menggunakan prosedur untuk melakukan penundaan. (T008/M016)

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The Senate is expected to approve the U.S. Secretary of Defense Hagel

Washington (Reuters)-Democratic leaders in the Senate of the United States moving ahead with plans for conducting Monday's voting for the inaugural Chuck Hagel as Defense Minister.

That movement will pave the way for Hagel became the head of the Pentagon's new leadership under President Barack Obama despite there is opposition from some members of the Senate from the Republican party, Reuters reported.

Sen. Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, said he will ask the Committee to conduct the vote in the trial that is scheduled to take place Tuesday at 14.30 local time.

The candidacy of Hagel as Defense Minister must first get approval from the Committee before it is then considered by the Senate as a whole.

The Committee controlled by Democrats--with 14 seats compared to the 12 original members occupied the Republic--is expected to approve the candidacy of Hagel.

Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said that he estimated that the discussion at the level of the Senate reserved the candidacy of Hagel will already be completed Thursday, and pave the way for actual voting.

The Democrats controlled the Senate majority with 55-45 that position is estimated to be approval Hagel became Minister of Defense.

"We hope that Wednesday or Thursday and we've been able to resolve the issue of the candidacy of Hagel," said Reid.

Hagel (66 years), which is a member of the Republican Party and was a senator representing Nebraska, before becoming a target of criticism from his party's senators spicy on its own.

They launched a question about whether Hagel supported Israel and tough enough against Iran.

Hagel in front panel recognition of the armed forces in the deliberations of the Council on 31 January and then reserved his candidacy also other criticism.

In fact, a number of members of the democratic origin says Hagel looks not ready and it looks doubtful when it gets aggressive questions from members of the original Committee Republican.

Supporters of Hagel, who has a conviction that Hagel will succeed Leon Panetta at the Defense Department, called the delay and the threat of Republican strongholds to prevent voting for the candidacy of Hagel as a political stance that threatens national security.

"We are very confident that ... Sen. Hagel will be confirmed as the next Secretary of Defense, "said White House spokesman Jay Carney in a news conference Monday.

There is no Democratic members who do not support the Hagel, and at least two members of the original Republican Senator Thad Cochran--from Mississippi and Mike Johanns, currently occupying the Nebraska Senate seat left by Hagel--have said that they will vote support for Hagel.

A number of other Republican members said they would not support the use of any procedural mechanism will force Democrats gathered the 60 votes to establish the candidacy of Hagel. (T008/A/C003)

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