UN/Treaties

RootsAction.org is demanding the potential secretary of State nominee sell shares in the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline. 

U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice said a Palestinian state cannot be created "by pressing a green voting button in this hall."

The senator said Rice's inaccurate description of the attack in Libya should not disqualify her from becoming secretary of State.

The U.N. is expected to overwhelmingly recognize Palestine as a non-member observer state Thursday.

Susan Rice’s bridge-building visit to Capitol Hill this week left Republicans divided on her possible nomination as secretary of State.

Susan Rice, who might be nominated by President Obama for secretary of State, has stock holdings in the Canadian company that is seeking approval from the State Department to build the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

Rice's holdings in TransCanada Corp., valued at between $300,000 and $600,000, are listed in a financial disclosure report for 2011 that was filed earlier this year.

The holdings open up Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to criticism from environmentalists at a time when she’s already under fire from Republicans over her descriptions of the attack on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, Libya.

The ambassador to the U.N. is sitting down individually with senators from both parties on Capitol Hill.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Monday that the Senate would move toward votes on a treaty protecting the rights of people with disabilities because Republicans still aren’t in agreement over amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act.

Reid said that while Republicans discuss what they want to do on the defense authorization, he intends bring up the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Tuesday. 

The resolution argues the treaty doesn't recognize the right of Americans to keep and bear arms.

Speculation about Rice's future as U.N. ambassador intensified after President Obama defended her account of Benghazi attack.