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From US Senator Tom Udall:
“Udall Statement on Trump’s Expected Nomination of Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of State December 13, 2016

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Tom Udall issued the following statement about President-elect Trump’s plan to nominate Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of State:

“The U.S. Secretary of State represents the United States on the world stage. Rex Tillerson is the highly paid CEO for Exxon, a multinational oil company that has made tens of billions of dollars in profit over the years, in part due to its foreign oil interests. And this raises troubling questions about what his agenda might be as America’s top diplomat.



“With this nomination, President-elect Trump is blatantly breaking his promise to drain the swamp of wealthy special interests, and instead is proposing to give a position of vital national importance to the leader of a corporation that defends its…