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| Xavier Bessera, new U.S. Health Secretary (left) and William Burns, new CIA Director. © Reuters = News 1 |
AFP news agency reported on the 18th (local time) that the US Senate has completed approval of the Minister of Health and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The US Senate appoints Xavier Bessera, 63, California Attorney General as US Secretary of Health. He is the first Latino health minister.
Minister Bessera, son of Mexican immigrants, was elected to Biden’s cabinet in the Senate with 50 votes in favor and 49 in favor.
Democratic Senate Chuck Schumer said, “It didn’t have to take such a long time for Minister Bessera to be approved.”
The Republican Party tried to defeat the approval of President Biden shortly after he nominated him as Minister of Health. He feared that he would try to get rid of private health insurance for millions of people because he had no experience as a medical professional and was too liberal and radical.
The US Senate has also appointed William Burns, 64, one of the most experienced diplomats in the United States as CIA director.
Director Burns received widespread bipartisan support. Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who opposed him, withdrew, and the approval was confirmed by a simple verbal vote.
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Director of National Intelligence Avril Haynes welcomed Mr. Burns, a former Vice Minister of State, as a’special official’ representing the United States, which has been respected both inside and outside the government for decades.
The Senate then passed a procedural ballot on the appointment of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as Secretary of Labor. Procedural voting is a process intended to be submitted to the final ballot.
“If confirmed, Walsh’s nominee would be the last minister to join the Biden administration,” said Schumer.
The two seats, the ministerial-level administrative budget director and the presidential scientific adviser, are still vacant.
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