Congressional Delegations

Kerry is the clear favorite to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Susan Rice no longer in the running.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been too ill to discuss North Korea's rocket launch with world leaders.  Read more...

Rep. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and former Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia will join the Senate Foreign Relations Committee next year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Wednesday. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), meanwhile, will be leaving the committee. Read more...

The committee seat will give McCain considerable power to grill Rice if she's nominated for secretary of State.

The outgoing senator served on the university's board of trustees while he was mayor of Indianapolis.

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) formally got the top Democratic spot on the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, replacing defeated Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.).

Engel, currently the top Democrat on the Western Hemisphere subpanel, was a shoo-in after Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) abandoned his run after stiff blowback from his bitter Democrat-on-Democrat race against Berman. American Samoa Del. Eni Faleomavaega had vowed to run, but his status as a non-voting member of Congress made his candidacy unviable.

Engel vowed to work with incoming committee chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) in a statement after the House Democratic Caucus voted by acclamation to approve him as ranking member.

Fifty-seven percent in a new poll say they'd support a presidential bid by Hillary Clinton in 2016. 

Consideration of the former Republican senator comes as Susan Rice faces controversy over her possible nomination as secretary of State.

Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) disagreed on Monday with Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) softening stance on the potential nomination of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice for secretary of State. 

The South Carolina congressman continued to take a hardline stand against Rice as a replacement for Hillary Clinton, saying that the ambassador has been "tainted" by her remarks on the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

The California congressman had angered colleagues over the bitter campaign he ran against fellow Democrat Rep. Howard Berman.