On Feb. 26, 2013, nearly two weeks after Republicans launched a filibuster to block Hagel's nomination, the Senate passed former senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense.
The battle over Hagel's confirmation between Democrats and Republicans comes at a time when Congress is under great critisism.
According to a Reuters report, many Republicans fiercely opposed Hagel, a decorated Vietnam War veteran who angered party leaders as a Nebraska senator when he criticized former President George W. Bush's handling of the Iraq war.
Some charged that Hagel is outside mainstream security thinking and raised questions about whether he is sufficiently supportive of Israel or tough enough on Iran. Opponents also worried that Hagel would be too complicit in efforts by Obama to cut Pentagon spending as a way to deal with yawning U.S. budget deficits.
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