THE RESET: John Kerry breezes through Hill hearing Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 11:37 am, Thursday, January 24, 2013 The Senate confirmation process is a minefield for many presidential nominees. The Massachusetts Democrat was treated gently on Thursday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — even by the same Republicans who relentlessly grilled outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton a day earlier on the administration's handling of the deadly September terrorist attack on the U.S.