It seems like a big issue to me.
Your confirmation gives those candidates a different level of standing.
the Senate holds on ambassadorial nominees are harming our national interest.
When the Houthis started to fire at U.S. and other ships in the Red Sea, we did not have an ambassador in Djibouti.
When Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, we did not have an ambassador in Egypt.
if somebody on the Senate is holding you up, and it is secret, you do not even have the ability to...
When the security situation in Haiti spiraled downward, we had no ambassador in place.
Is there not also kind of an informal power that comes in the reverse if you do not have a confirmed nominee?
Holding up a nominee, particularly a career nominee for reasons unrelated to that individual's qualifications is something that needs to end...
if we mattered to you, you would have someone here, right?
If we don't get ahead of climate change it is a national security imperative.
We had no ambassador in country.
I agree with Senator Braun that the national debt is a huge issue.
For people to deny those facts is a complete disconnect from reality.
