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Two vocal Senate skeptics — Sens. John McCaind and Lindsey Graham — threw their support behind Rex Tillerson yesterday, clearing a path for his confirmation as secretary of state.
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Pompeo is being considered by the U.S. Senate for confirmation as secretary of state.
Mike Pompeo won a favorable vote Monday from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after Sen. Rand Paul flipped to endorse him, paving an unexpectedly easy path for the CIA director to win confirmation as secretary of state as soon as this week.
Not exact matches
Analysts are watching for any changes to come with Bolton as national security advisor and a new secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, who is awaiting Senate confirmation.
Jacobson, a career diplomat, was nominated for the post by President Barack Obama in June 2015, but her confirmation was held up for 10 months in the Senate — led by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez — over objections to the Obama administration's reestablishment of diplomatic ties with Cuba, which she helped negotiate as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.
The comments from Cruz and Lee suggest MacManus will likely face a nasty confirmation battle that will touch on the role he played as Clinton's top aide in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack, as well as during the scandal over her use of a private email account while serving as secretary of State.
National pro-life groups and religious freedom advocates are celebrating the Senate's confirmation of Mike Pompeo as secretary of state.
Commemorating the confirmation of Mike Pompeo as the next U.S. Secretary of State, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders posted photos of Pompeo «s Easter weekend meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong - un.
Former Exxon Mobil Corp. chief executive Rex Tillerson has been tapped as secretary of state and is awaiting confirmation by the Senate.
Pompeo is awaiting a vote on his confirmation as Trump's pick to succeed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
The recent confirmation of Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State by the Senate symbolizes that nationalist «hawks» dominate the Republican Party's foreign policy.
(CNN)- The Obama transition talking points for Sen. Hillary Clinton's Tuesday confirmation hearing as secretary of state say she will stress «a renewal of American leadership» and a «revitalization of diplomacy to promote our security interests and advance our values.»
Secretary of State Tillerson supported Paris in his previous job as CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp. and called for a «seat at the table» on climate negotiations during his Senate confirmation hearing.
pledged yesterday to make climate change a top priority as secretary of State as he sailed through a mostly genial confirmation hearing before the committee he still chairs.
The Senate confirmation of Betsy DeVos as the U.S. secretary of education saw critics hurl accusations that the charter school sector in her home state of Michigan was a «Wild West» of low student performance and authorizing chaos.
«NSBA congratulates Betsy DeVos on her confirmation as the 11th United States Secretary of Education.
Anti-forced unionism lawsuits, the emergence of yet another right - to - work state and the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary all combined to make for a miserable few days in Unionland.
WASHINGTON — Lindsey Johnson, President and Executive Director of the U.S. Mortgage Insurers (USMI), today issued the following statement on the United States Senate confirmation of Ben Carson as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD):
At his Senate confirmation hearing, Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil who has been nominated as the next secretary of State, provided measured and carefully crafted answers, but did little to reassure the American public that he would lead on climate change.