In a 52-42 tally, the Senate voted Wednesday to end debate on Garcetti’s nomination, clearing the way for a confirmation vote by the full Senate later Wednesday afternoon.
Garcetti’s nomination to the new Senate in January, rather than choose another nominee. Earlier this month, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced Garcetti’s nomination to the full chamber in a 13-8 vote, with two Republicans voting in support.that she felt Garcetti was “unfit to become an ambassador or really to hold public office anywhere in this country or this world” and accused the former mayor of enabling a “hard, disappointing and toxic” work environment.
As mayor of Los Angeles from 2013 to 2022, Garcetti worked to raise the minimum wage, focused on expanding transit lines and steered the city through theThe United States has been without an ambassador to India, the world’s largest democracy, since Biden took office. In the interim, various foreign officers have assumed duties at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi as chargé d’affaires., Garcetti noted he had studied Hindi and Indian cultural and religious history in college.
That was no longer the case, he added. If confirmed, Garcetti has said, he would champion economic and defense partnerships between the United States and India. “The bedrock of our partnership are the human ties that connect our nations, embodied by the 4 million strong Indian American diaspora that strengthens our nation and the nearly 200,000 Indian students and tens of thousands of Indian professionals who contribute to our economy,” he told the committee then.
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