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President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to be confirmed for the job as the nation’s top diplomat, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 11, 2017. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)