[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Senate Republicans cleared 27 Trump appointees on Thursday as part of a confirmation blitz that is expected to last for weeks.
| They don't seem to be passing any bills, but this kind of thing matters, too. |
The list, passed by voice vote, included 16 new ambassadors who will represent the United States in nations including Monaco, Haiti, Mauritania, Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
, Denmark, and Niger, where a deadly Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
ambush left four soldiers dead earlier this month.
Lawmakers also confirmed several assistants and under secretaries for the Departments of State and Energy as well as two nominees tapped to serve on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 
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