Business meeting to consider the nominations of Kari Lake, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to Jamaica, Douglas Mastriano, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Slovak Republic, Juan Segura, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation, and to be an Assistant Secretary (Western Hemisphere Affairs), Barbera Thornhill, of North Carolina, to be Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, with the rank of Ambassador at Large, Joseph Burkhalter, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova, John Hurley, of California, to be Representative of the United States of America to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, with the rank of Ambassador, Daniel Perez, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil, Rudolph Bauer, of South Carolina, to be Ambassador to Belize, Brendan Hanrahan, of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (European and Eurasian Affairs), Katherine Bowles, of Alabama, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Legislative Affairs), Donald Blome, of Illinois, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Near Eastern Affairs), Christopher Anderson, of Wisconsin, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, Laurence Socha, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia, and Stanley Brown, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, all of the Department of State. ☆Favorite

Foreign Relations Committee · Senate · Business meeting · Jul 22, 2026 · 116, Capitol (Senate side)