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Senate Foreign Relations Committee hears introductions for six diplomatic and economic nominees; committee business panel advances five to the floor
Summary
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee met for a combined nominations hearing and brief business meeting where senators introduced nominees for multiple ambassadorial posts and for the assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs; a separate business motion to advance five nominees to the Senate floor passed by a 12‑vote majority.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee met to consider a slate of diplomatic and economic nominations and to conduct a brief business meeting. Chairman Jim Risch opened the session and said the committee would hear introductions and short statements from nominees and ‘‘when I get the right number in the room, we’re gonna take a break’’ to conduct votes in the business meeting.
Sen. Susan Collins introduced Caleb Orr, President Trump’s nominee for assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs. Collins described Orr’s role in creating and implementing the Paycheck Protection Program during the COVID-19 pandemic and credited the program’s rapid distribution of relief, saying the bipartisan program ‘‘was signed into law as part of the CARES Act on March 27, 2020, and within three weeks ... had distributed $342,000,000,000 in crucial economic aid’’ and that Orr ‘‘played an absolutely essential…
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