http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/26/biden.iraq/WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Joseph Biden, the incoming chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said he has invited Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to testify during three weeks of hearings in January about the Iraq war.
Biden, a Delaware Democrat, told reporters Tuesday that the proponents of different plans for Iraq will be invited to the hearings that are to begin on January 9.
He also will call former secretaries of state, academics, Iraq Study Group members and other witnesses from outside the administration as the committee examines various approaches to the war.
The bipartisan Iraq Study Group, comprising five Democrats and five Republicans, recommended this month that the United States pull out of Iraq by 2008.
Rice has not announced whether she will appear before the committee, primarily because President Bush has not announced his plans regarding Iraq.
Bush is expected to tell the nation in January what changes in strategy or policy he intends to make.
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