The Senate Foreign Relations Committee cleared a massive 24 nominees for top diplomatic posts on Thursday, including 16 ambassadors.
The nominees include Greg Starr, President Obama’s pick to replace Eric Boswell, who resigned as Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security over last year’s attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. The panel also cleared top Obama donors for ambassadorships in the Netherlands, Portugal and the Dominican Republic, while former deputy chief of planning Mark Childress is slated to go to Tanzania.
{mosads}Although uncontroversial, the nominees face an uncertain future in the Senate, where Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has vowed to block all of President Obama’s nominees over unanswered questions about Benghazi. Graham is demanding that lawmakers be granted access to Americans who survived the assault on Sept. 11, 2012, and their testimony to the FBI.
Here’s the full list of nominees cleared by the panel:
Mr. Gregory B. Starr, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security
Mr. Mark Bradley Childress, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the United Republic of Tanzania
Mr. Thomas F. Daughton, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to Namibia
Mr. Matthew Harrington, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Lesotho
The Honorable Eunice S. Reddick, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to Niger
Mr. John Hoover, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to Sierra Leone
Mr. Michael S. Hoza, of Washington, to be Ambassador to Cameroon
Mr. Tomasz P. Malinowski, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Ms. Crystal Nix-Hines, of California, to be the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
Ms. Pamela K. Hamamoto, of Hawaii, to be Representative of the United States of America to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva
The Honorable Philip S. Goldberg, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines
The Honorable Robert O. Blake, Jr., of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia
Ms. Karen Clark Stanton, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
Mr. Timothy Broas, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Mr. Donald Lu, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Albania
Mr. Robert A. Sherman, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Portuguese Republic
The Honorable Anne W. Patterson, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
Mr. Adam M. Scheinman, of Virginia, to be Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation
The Honorable Rose Eilene Gottemoeller, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
Mr. Frank A. Rose, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance
Mr. Dwight L. Bush, Sr., of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco
Mr. James Brewster, Jr., of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic
Mr. Brian A. Nichols, of Rhode Island, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Peru
The Honorable Carlos Roberto Moreno, of California, to be Ambassador to Belize
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