Eric Garcetti set to be confirmed as US Ambassador to India : The Tribune India

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Washington, March 15

President Joe Biden’s shut aide Eric Garcetti is set to be confirmed as US Ambassador to India after the Senate on Wednesday voted on the cloture movement limiting debate on his nomination, reflecting that the ruling Democratic Party has sufficient votes for his choice for the important thing submit.

The former Los Angeles mayor’s nomination was pending earlier than the US Congress since July 2021 when he was nominated for the celebrated diplomatic posting by Biden. The place has remained vacant for greater than two years.

A cloture movement is a procedural movement that limits additional debate on the matter at hand. It permits the bulk to defeat efforts by the minority to delay or impede proceedings on a matter by exhibiting the matter has the assist of a super-majority.

The cloture movement on his nomination was handed 52 to 42 votes.

The US-India relationship is a crucial relationship, mentioned Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

A last Senate vote is scheduled for later within the day.

Garcetti’s nomination was not introduced to the Senate flooring for a vote over the past Congress as the ruling Democratic Party didn’t have sufficient assist to get the 52-year-old shut aide of Biden via.

Garcetti was not confirmed by the Senate in President Biden’s first two years in workplace amid considerations by some lawmakers that the then-mayor had not adequately dealt with allegations towards a former senior adviser of sexual assault and harassment.

President Biden renominated Garcetti to the identical place in January this yr.

Kenneth Juster, the final occupant of the ambassadorial residence of the US in New Delhi, stepped down in January 2021 after the change of presidency in America.