Biden 選ぶs former Sen. Tom Udall for New Zealand 外交官／大使
WASHINGTON (AP) - 大統領 Joe Biden is 指名するing former New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall to serve as his 外交官／大使 to New Zealand and Samoa.
Udall, a 民主党員, retired in 2021 after two 条件 in the 上院 代表するing New Mexico. He spent five 条件 in the House and served as New Mexico's 弁護士／代理人／検事 general. He comes from a family 井戸／弁護士席 known for public service: his father Stewart Udall served as 内部の 長官, his uncle Mo Udall was a 下院議員 from Colorado and his cousin 示す Udall was a 上院議員 from Colorado
"Having 献身的な my life to public service and having served as a member of the 上院 Foreign Relations 委員会 焦点（を合わせる）ing on 政策s that 促進する 僕主主義, international 開発, and 自然保護, I am 栄誉（を受ける）d to be 指名するd by 大統領 Biden to this next 役割 serving our 広大な／多数の／重要な country," Udall said in a 声明.
Udall is the third former 上院 同僚 that Biden has tapped for an 大使の position.
He's also 指名するd Ken Salazar, a 民主党員 who 代表するd Colorado and served as 内部の 長官 in the Obama 行政, to serve as 外交官／大使 to Mexico, and Jeff Flake, an Arizona 共和国の／共和党の who 是認するd Biden's 2020 run, to serve as 外交官／大使 to Turkey.
Biden is also 推定する／予想するd to 指名する Democratic fundraiser Jane Hartley to serve as his 外交官／大使 to the 部隊d Kingdom, によれば a person familiar with the 決定／判定勝ち（する） who was not 権限を与えるd to comment 公然と.
FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2020 とじ込み／提出する photo, Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., speaks during a 上院 Foreign Relations 委員会 審理，公聴会 on （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 Hill in Washington. 大統領 Joe Biden is 指名するing former New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall to serve as his 外交官／大使 to New Zealand and Samoa. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool, とじ込み／提出する)
It was not すぐに （疑いを）晴らす when the White House would 正式に 発表する the 任命 of Hartley, who served as 外交官／大使 to フラン and Monaco during the Obama 行政. She was a 重要な fundraiser for Biden's 2020 run for the White House.
The White House 拒絶する／低下するd to comment about Hartley's 未解決の 指名／任命, which was first 報告（する）／憶測d by the Washington 地位，任命する.
Hartley served as 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of the 経済的な and political （a）忠告の／（n）警報 会社／堅い 観測所 Group, director of congressional relations for the Department of 住宅 and 都市の 開発 and in the Carter 行政. She is married to Ralph Schlosstein, 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of 投資 bank Evercore.
The UK ambassadorship is one of the most high profile 外交の postings and often comes with an 期待 that the 指名された人 can foot the 法案 for entertaining on に代わって of the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs.
Former 大統領 Donald Trump turned to New York Jets owner Robert "Woody" Johnson for the London 地位，任命するing. Barack Obama turned to 実業家 Matthew Barzun and lawyer Louis Susman during his time in office. Robert Tuttle, a Californian who made his money in the car dealership 商売／仕事, held the 地位，任命する under George W. Bush.
Biden is also considering 指名するing Democratic fundraiser George Tsunis, 創立者 and CEO of Chartwell Hotels, to serve as 外交官／大使 to Greece, によれば two people familiar with the White House 審議s.
Tsunis was 指名するd by Obama in 2013 to serve as 外交官／大使 to Norway, but gave up on consideration after a difficult 上院 確定／確認 審理，公聴会. Tsunis acknow ledged during the 審理，公聴会 that he had not visited Norway and 誤った referred to the country´s 長，率いる of 政府 as "大統領，／社長" rather than "首相."
The White House is 重さを計るing Tsunis at the 勧めるing of Sen. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey 民主党員, によれば two people familiar with the 行政's 審議s. Menendez, as chairman of the 上院 Foreign Relations 委員会, has important 影響（力） over the pace of 確定／確認 審理，公聴会s for the 大使の 指名された人s.
The White House also 発表するd Friday that Biden was 指名するing three career foreign service officers to ambassadorships: Caryn McClelland to Brunei Darussalam, Michael Murphy to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Howard 先頭 Vranken to Botswana.
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FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2015, とじ込み／提出する photo U.S. 外交官／大使 to フラン Jane D. Hartley, 提起する／ポーズをとるs for the photographers 事前の to a dinner at the US 外交官／大使's 住居 in Paris. 大統領 Joe Biden is 推定する／予想するd to 指名する Democratic fundraiser Jane Hartley to serve as his 外交官／大使 to the 部隊d Kingdom, によれば a person familiar with the 決定／判定勝ち（する） who was not 権限を与えるd to comment 公然と. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, とじ込み／提出する)
