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Senate Confirmations: Shannon, Egan, Raji, Heins, Estrada, McKean, and Marciel
Posted: 2:55 pm EDT After a long wait, State Department nominees who were snared in a senate hold by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) were finally confirmed in a voice vote today before Congress left for the...
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Senate Finally Confirms Roberta Jacobson as New Ambassador to Mexico
Posted:9:44 pm ET So the senator with some serious grrrrrr over the administration’s Cuba policy finally relented on President Obama’s ambassador pick for Mexico. On April 28, Roberta Jacobson was...
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Confirmations: Riley, Stewart, Matthews, Sterling, Keiderling-Franz,...
Posted: 9:23 pm PT On May 17, the U.S. Senate finally confirmed the following nominations by voice vote (Also see Career @StateDept Nominees Remain Stuck in Senate Confirmation Purgatory). The...
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Senate Confirms Casper, Pasi, Leonard, and 279 Career Foreign Service...
Posted: 3:01 am ET On June 29, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Obama’s nominees as Ambassadors to Burundi, Chad and the African Union. It also approved the nominations of 279 career Foreign...
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Senate Confirmations: Hall, Silverman, Perez, Pyatt, Silliman, Yovanovitch
Posted: 1:57 am ET On July 14, the U.S. Senate confirmed the following executive nominations 2016-07-14 PN1264 Lithuania | Anne Hall, of Maine, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of...
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Senate Confirms Peter M. McKinley to be U.S.Ambassador to Brazil, More Noms...
Posted: 3:31 pm ET The Senate CONFIRMED Peter Michael McKinley to be Ambassador to Brazil, 92-0. — Senate D Floor Watch (@DSenFloor) September 8, 2016 The following are nominations currently waiting...
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Senate Confirmations: Bitter, Kim, Young, Symington, Donovan
Posted: 1:38 am ET The U.S. Senate confirmed the following ambassador nominations on Wednesday, September 28. Five nominations included in SFRC’s business meeting on September 27 did not make it to...
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Senate Confirms the Next US Ambassador to Malaysia Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir,...
Posted: 2:55 pm PT On December 10, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Lakhdhir, Kamala Shirin (June 2016) as the next U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia. She is a career member of the Senior...
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Senate Confirmations: Promotion List – Career FSOs to Class of Counselor
Posted: 12:22 am ET The following-named Career Member of the Foreign Service for promotion into the Senior Foreign Service, as a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service of the United States of...
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Senate Confirms Rex Tillerson as the 69th Secretary of State
Posted: 12:23 am ET Updated: 9:51 am ET Updated: 12:31 pm ET On Wednesday, February 1, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Rex Tillerson as the 69th Secretary of State. Senate Republicans and...
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Snapshot: @StateDept Presidential Appointee Positions Requiring Senate...
Posted: 12:48 am ET POTUS44 nominated Hillary Clinton as the 67th Secretary of State in December 2008. She assumed office on January 21, 2009. Rex Tillerson had to wait a couple of weeks to get to...
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Senate Confirms David Friedman as U.S. Ambassador to Israel in 52-46 Vote
Posted: 3:11 am ET On March 23, the U.S. Senate confirmed David Friedman as U.S. Ambassador to Israel in a narrow 52-46 vote with two Democrats (Manchin (D-WV), and Menendez (D-NJ), joining the...
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Senate Confirms Amb. Robert Lighthizer as Trump’s U.S. Trade Representative
Posted: 4:33 pm ET On January 3, then President-elect Trump announced his intent to nominate former deputy USTR Robert Lighthizer as the next U.S. Trade Representative (@USTradeRep). If confirmed,...
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U.S. Senate Confirms Seven Foreign Service Lists (347 Nominees From...
Posted: 2:14 am ET On May 18, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nominations in seven Foreign Service lists with 347 nominees from the State Department, USAID and USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service....
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Confirmations: Todd Haskell (Congo), Tulinabo Mushingi...
Posted: 2:29 am ET On May 18, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nominations of career diplomats Todd Haskell and Tulinabo Salama Mushingi to be the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo and the...
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U.S. Senate Confirms John J. Sullivan to be Deputy Secretary of State
Posted: 2:17 am ET On May 24, the U.S. Senate confirmed John J. Sullivan as Deputy Secretary of State in a 94-6 vote. Six senators voted against Mr. Sullivan’s confirmation: Booker (D-NJ), Duckworth...
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New Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa Scott Brown Introduces Self in Home...
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U.S. Senate Confirms William F. Hagerty IV as U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Once a year, we ask for your support to keep this blog going. We’re running our fundraising campaign until Saturday, July 15. Help Us Get to Year 10! Posted: 1:59 am ET On July 13, the U.S. Senate...
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U.S. Senate Confirms Five Foreign Service Lists With 331 Nominees
Posted: 12:02 am ET On July 31, 2017, the U.S. Senate confirmed five Foreign Service lists with 331 nominees. Use the links below to look up the names. 2017-07-31 PN578 Foreign Service | Nominations...
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U.S. Senate Confirms USAID’s Mark Green, 2 @StateDept Nominees, and 11 New...
Posted: 12:05 am ET On Thursday, August 3, the U.S. Senate confirmed a slew of nominees for the State Department, including 11 new ambassadors. Also confirmed was Ambassador Mark Green as USAID...
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