WASHINGTON — Sen. Joseph Biden, the new Democratic chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, in scheduling three weeks of hearings on Iraq threatens to interfere with President Bush's two major speeches in January.

Biden, a critic of Bush's war policy, announced last week that hearings would begin Jan. 9. That conflicts with the president's speech on Iraq tentatively scheduled for Jan. 10. Three weeks of hearings are supposed to end around the time the president goes to the co ...

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