President Biden has unveiled 2 more ambassador nominees, but the White House and Democrats warn that maneuvering by some Senate Republicans to block diplomatic appointees is doing harm to U.S. efforts around the globe.
to block all but a small fraction of diplomatic and other national security appointees is doing serious harm to U.S. efforts around the globe.
As of Tuesday, only 13 of Biden’s 85 ambassadorial nominees have been confirmed by the Senate, according to the White House. Critics on the both sides of the aisle have raised concerns that the pipeline will threaten European energy security by increasing the continent’s reliance on Russian gas and allowing Russia to exert political pressure on vulnerable Eastern and Central European nations, particularly Ukraine.
The Senate typically confirms noncontroversial State Department and Pentagon nominees by unanimous consent, a process that doesn’t require the Senate to use valuable floor time. Many of the nominees being held up were voted out of the Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees with broad bipartisan support.
“I think there are members who are really concerned about particularly certain areas of the world where we don’t have ambassadors in place and recognize that it’s important that some of these get done," Thune said.The president on Wednesday announced he will nominate Caroline Kennedy, a former U.S. envoy to Japan in the Obama administration and daughter of the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, to serve as his chief envoy to Australia and retired U.S.
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida announced in November that he had put a hold on the nomination of Nicholas Burns to be ambassador to China in an effort to press Biden to sign into law bipartisan legislation he co-authored banning products made with Uyghur forced labor in western China.
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