Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State planned to testify herself in January. The Benghazi matter also had an effect on Clinton's successor as Secretary of State. Obama's first choice was Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, but she came under heavy criticism from Congressional Republicans for what they felt were incorrect or deceptive statements in the aftermath of the attack, and by mid-December she withdrew her name from consideration. Obama then nominated Senator John Kerry for the position instead. By one report, Clinton had preferred Kerry over Rice all along anyway. Although still not well enough to attend the December 21 announcement of Kerry's nomination, Clinton
Secretary of state State Secretary cannot attend a Council of State and the only minister is constitutionally responsible for all the "statssekretær"'s descions in office. In Portugal, a secretary of State (Portuguese: "secretário de Estado", masculine; "secretária de Estado", feminine; "secretários de Estado", plural) is a junior minister, of intermediate rank between that of cabinet minister and that of under-secretary of State. Although members of the Government, the secretaries of State do not usually participate in the Council of Ministers, unless summoned for certain meetings and, in those cases, without right to vote. Until the reorganization of the Portuguese Public Administration structure in