A CONFIRMABLE WOMAN:

Senate Approves Nominee to Tend America's Image (STEVEN R. WEISMAN, 6/25/05, NY Times)

The Senate on Friday approved the nomination of Dina Powell as deputy under secretary of state for public diplomacy, three days after a leading Democratic senator dropped his effort to block its approval in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. [...]

Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, the senior Democrat on the committee, had prevented her approval by the committee last week, charging that the White House was trying to remove a Democrat from the board that oversees the United States government's international broadcasting efforts, particularly its Arabic- and Persian-language radio and television networks.

Norman Kurz, a spokesman for Mr. Biden, said the senator remained concerned about the White House's refusal to reappoint the board member, Norman J. Pattiz, to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, but that he had not opposed Ms. Powell's nomination by itself.

The Democrats will let anyone through these days...

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 25, 2005 8:36 AM