Monica Alba is a White House correspondent for NBC News.
WASHINGTON — The White House has been working urgently in the past 24 hours to get a Senate confirmation process in motion for President Joe Biden’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, according to two White House officials. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is now expected to hold a confirmation hearing for Jack Lew, a former Treasury secretary and White House chief of staff during the Obama administration, as early as Oct. 18, according to three people familiar with the plans.
is without an ambassador in multiple countries in the region and said partisan wrangling that leads to such vacancies “sends a dangerous signal and encourages adventurism by our adversaries.” “The Senate should move the confirmation through the committee and the floor quickly,” said Coons. The nominees for U.S. ambassador to Oman, Kuwait and the State Department’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism all await a vote on the Senate floor. The nominees for U.S.
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