Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman of its subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Narcotics Affairs, today issued the following statement after President-Elect Obama announced several nominations for his national security team:

“I applaud President-Elect Obama’s nomination of an experienced national security team.  Hillary Clinton, James Jones, Robert Gates, Janet Napolitano, Eric Holder, and Susan Rice each have a proven record of pragmatic problem-solving and bipartisan cooperation on a host of complex challenges to U.S. national security. 

“With Senator Clinton as Secretary of State and General Jones as National Security Advisor, United States foreign policy will again combine the best of our soft and hard powers, rebuilding our effectiveness and moral authority around the world.  I look forward to Secretary-Elect Clinton's rapid approval by the Senate, and to working closely with her and the rest of this talented national security team.”

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