| neftveivet | Date: Miercuri, 11 Sep 2013, 07:58 | Message # 1 |
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(Alex Brandon - AP)
The White House cranked out nominations this week for ambassadorships and some top sub-Cabinet jobs.</p>
<p>On the diplomatic front, the slate included Democratic National Committee executive director, Patrick Gaspard , who will be the new ambo in South Africa. It hadthat Gaspard, a former White House political director, would get the coveted gig.</p>
<p>Also getting ambassadorial jobs were two major Obama donors: Miami lawyer Kirk Wagar to Singapore ) and Texas philanthropist Alexa Wesner to Austria.</p>
<p>Closer to home, Obama has also nominated renewable energy champion Ron Binz, a former Colorado utility regulator, to head the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.</p>
<p>Krysta Harden, chief of staff at the Department of Agriculture and before that assistant secretary for congressional relations, was nominated to be the department s deputy secretary.</p>
<p>Alejandro Mayorkas, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and formerly a federal prosecutor in California, is the pick to be deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.</p>
<p>Robert Bonnie, a senior policy adviser at the Agriculture Department and before that a longtime official at the Environmental Defense Fund, got the nod to be the department s undersecretary for natural resources and environment.</p>
<p>Steve Linick, inspector general at the Federal Housing and Finance Agency and former head of a procurement fraud task force at the Justice Department was nominated to be inspector general at the State Department a job that has been without a confirmed IG since January 2008. </p>
<p>Yes, that s right, not since the beginning of the last year of the Bush administration. Of course, these things take time. </p>
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