<prompt> Qedela umusho olandelayo: U-Rice, owayengumngane we-Brookings Institution, wakhonza njengomeluleki wenqubomgomo yezangaphandle wabantu ababekhethwe yiqembu le-Democratic njengoMongameli uMichael Dukakis, uJohn Kerry, noBarack Obama. Ngemva kokuba u-Obama enqobe ukhetho lukamongameli lwango-2008, uRice waqokwa njengoNxusa eZizweni Ezihlangene. ISenate yamqinisekisa ngazwi linye ngoJanuwari 22, 2009. Ngesikhathi esebenza eZizweni Ezihlangene, uRice wagqugquzela amalungelo abantu kanye nohlelo lokulwa nobuphofu, waphakamisa ukuguquka kwesimo sezulu kanye namalungelo e-LGBT kanye nabesifazane njengezinto eziza kuqala emhlabeni jikelele, futhi wazibophezela e-US ezivumelwaneni ezinjengeSivumelwano Sokuvimbela Ukusabalala Kwezikhali Zenuzi, i-Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, kanye ne-UN Millennium Development Goals. Wabuye wavikela u-Israyeli eMkhandlwini Wezokuphepha, wacindezela ukuba kuhanjiswe izijeziso ezinzima ngokumelene ne-Iran neNyakatho Korea, futhi wakhuthaza ukuba i-U.S. ne-NATO  <response>: ukungenelela eLibya ngo-2011. 