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WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Dennis Hankins as the U.S. ambassador to Haiti as the Caribbean country faces escalating violence and political uncertainty.. The near ...
(Confirmed December 18, 2021, by voice vote) [V 102] — — Ambassador to Italy Ambassador to San Marino. Jack Markell: September 23, 2023 (Confirmed July 27, 2023 by voice vote) [V 103] — — Ambassador to Kosovo. Jeff Hovenier: January 10, 2022 (Confirmed November 18, 2021, by voice vote) [V 104] — — Ambassador to Latvia. Christopher T ...
The Senate confirmed Dennis Hankins as U.S. ambassador to Haiti in a bipartisan vote on Thursday, resolving a years-long vacancy as the Caribbean nation faces a political and security crisis not ...
President Joe Biden has nominated the current US ambassador to NATO to one of the top positions at the State Department. ... Her nomination was sent to the Senate the same day, according to a ...
Under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, their appointment must be confirmed by the United States Senate; [1] while an ambassador may be appointed during a recess, they can serve only until the end of the next session of Congress, unless subsequently confirmed. [2] Ambassadors are the highest-ranking diplomats of the U.S. and are ...
Below is a list of nominations and appointments to the Department of State by Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States. As of August 2, 2024, according to tracking by The Washington Post and Partnership for Public Service, 41 nominees have been confirmed, 15 nominees are being considered by the Senate, 5 positions do not have nominees, and 20 appointments have been made to positions ...
The Senate voted 53 to 43, largely along party lines, with Biden's fellow Democrats backing Lew and most Republicans opposing him. ... US Senate confirms Lew to be ambassador to Israel. Patricia ...
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., a leading moderate Republican who lost his seat in the United States Senate to John F. Kennedy in the 1952 elections, was appointed ambassador to the United Nations in 1953 by Dwight D. Eisenhower in gratitude for the defeated senator's role in the new president's defeat of conservative leader Robert A. Taft for the 1952 Republican nomination and subsequent service as ...