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Kerry to Senate panel: 'I may fail. I don't care'

Senate Foreign Relations Committee members pressed US Secretary of State John Kerry on US policy in the Middle East.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry testifies at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee while on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 8, 2014. Kerry squarely blamed Russian agents on Tuesday for separatist unrest in eastern Ukraine, saying Moscow could be trying to lay the groundwork for military action like in Crimea.   REUTERS/Larry Downing   (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3KFZM

Secretary of State John Kerry returned from a grueling 12-day trip to Europe and the Middle East only to have his record of diplomatic activism get a bipartisan bashing Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

Kerry's appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was his first since Syrian and Israeli-Palestinian peace talks floundered even as nuclear negotiations with Iran have taken off.

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