Tom Carper: “We need them to nominate career Ambassadors, and we need to hold speedy hearings, vet them, and vote them up or down.”

To have vacancies that may be not just months, but in some cases years to that have been filled, that justice delayed is justice denied.

We are better off when we hear community concerns at the beginning of the process rather than at the end.

For too long, the seats have not been filled, and not been filled properly.

We will do it again. Maybe the next time we will actually make it to Columbia.