Senate Confirms Mitchell (EUR), Siberell (Bahrain), Bass (Afghanistan),...
Posted: 12:40 am ET [twitter-follow screen_name=’Diplopundit’] On September 28, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination for the new Assistant Secretary for State for EUR, and the nominees as chiefs...
View ArticleSenate Confirms Callista Gingrich as U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See
Posted: 1:53 am ET Follow @Diplopundit For a short while on Monday, Callista Gingrich was trending on Twitter. It turned out that the U.S. Senate finally voted on her nomination as U.S. Ambassador to...
View ArticleConfirmations: 18 @StateDept Nominations Including 15 Ambassadors
Posted: 2:05 pm PT Updated: 3:18 pm PT Follow @Diplopundit Below are the names of State Department nominees awaiting confirmation based on the October 26 Executive Calendar. On November 2, the U.S....
View ArticleConfirmations: Goldstein, Lawler, Johnson, Gonzales, and Four New Career...
Posted: 4:45 pm PT Follow @Diplopundit On November 16, the U.S. Senate confirmed several nominations for the State Department, including the first under secretary confirmation under the Tillerson...
View ArticleConfirmations: McClenny, Braithwaite, Ford, Newstead, Waters, Brock
Posted: 12:12 am ET Follow @Diplopundit The U.S. Senate is now adjourned for the year and will next meet for legislative business at 12:00 p.m on Wednesday, January 3, 2018. For a list of nominees...
View ArticleSenate Finally Confirms Brownback as Ambassador-at-Large, Kansas Sighs With...
Posted: 12:27 am ET Follow @Diplopundit On January 24, the Senate finally confirmed the nomination of Governor Samuel Brownback to be the Ambassador-at-Large at the State Department’s Office of...
View ArticleSenate Confirms Four Foreign Service Lists Including Two Pretty Thin...
Posted: 3:43 am ET Updated 2:04 pm PT Follow @Diplopundit On January 30, the U.S. Senate confirmed four Foreign Service lists including two promotion lists that look pretty thin. Are these all the...
View ArticleSenate Confirms Joel Danies (Gabon) and Peter Vrooman (Rwanda)
Posted: 1:03 am ET Follow @Diplopundit On February 15, the U.S. Senate confirmed the following career nominees to be U.S. Ambassadors to Gabon and to Rwanda: Executive Calendar #617 – Joel Danies, of...
View ArticleConfirmations: Trujillo, Pence, Prado, Traina, Moley, Royce, and More
Posted: 12:04 am ET Follow @Diplopundit Late on March 22, the U.S. Senate confirmed the following executive nominations for the State Department, the Peace Corps, and a few other reps for...
View ArticleConfirmations: Grenell, Hushek, Thompson, Poblete, Madison, and 5 FS Lists
Posted: 10:35 pm PT Follow @Diplopundit Congratulations to Ambassador-designate Grenell! The U.S. Mission looks forward to welcoming you to Germany. pic.twitter.com/YuWkjl7Q9q — US-Botschaft Berlin...
View ArticleWhat did we miss?
Ambassador Steve Mull Back in Foggy Bottom In June, former Ambassador Steve Mull was appointed Acting Under Secretary for Political Affairs (P) at the State Department. Until this appointment, he was...
View ArticleSenate on Recess, See Pending @StateDept Nominations (as of August 4, 2018)
Posted: 4:40 pm PT Follow @Diplopundit The U.S. Senate went on its summer recess on Wednesday, August 1. The senators will not be back until August 15. Nominees hoping the Senate would make a slew of...
View ArticleSenate Confirms Goldberg, Hale, Sison, Smith For Personal Rank of Career...
On July 18, President Trump sent the nomination of four career diplomats for the personal rank of Career Ambassador to the U.S. Senate. The nominations have been placed on the Senate Executive Calendar...
View ArticleConfirmations: David Hale as “P”, Ambassadors, and Foreign Service Lists
The U.S. Senate confirmed the following State Department nominations recently. Click on the links to view the names included in the Foreign Service lists (State, USAID, Commerce). STATE DEPARTMENT...
View ArticleSenate Confirms @StateDept Officials and Ambassadors Before Leaving Town...
The U.S. Senate adjourned on Thursday, October 11, to reconvene on November 13. Before leaving town, it confirmed three assistant secretaries for the State Department (WHA, CSO, H), four ambassadors...
View ArticleSenate Confirmation Fight in the Horizon Once Again? Tick-Tock
Say what you will about Menendez, but he's doing great work stopping bad State Dept. nominees. One ambassador pick had a restraining order taken out against her because she left a bullet-riddled...
View ArticleYo Wanna Spank Schumer But Not @Senatemajldr McConnell For Non-Confirmation...
It looks like the President of the United States is ending 2018 by ranting that “heads of countries” are calling and asking why Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer “is not approving their otherwise...
View Article115th Congress Final Day: Some Senate Confirmations
On January 2, the final day of the 15th Congress, the U.S. Senate did one mass confirmation of State Department, USAID and UN nominees. We’re going by the names tweeted by the Senate Cloakroom on Jan....
View ArticleConfirmations: Rosenblum(Uzbekistan), Scott (Malawi), Abizaid (Saudi Arabia),...
On April 11, the U.S. Senate confirmed the following State Department nominations. 2019-04-11 PN138 Uzbekistan Daniel N. Rosenblum, of Maryland, a Career Member of the Senior Executive Service, to be...
View ArticleU.S. Senate Confirms Matthew Tueller as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
Confirmed by Voice Vote: Executive Calendar #185 Matthew Tueller to be Ambassador of the U.S. to the Republic of Iraq @StateDept — Senate Cloakroom (@SenateCloakroom) May 16, 2019 While in Iraq, I...
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