{"id":25033,"date":"2020-05-20T16:54:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T23:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25033"},"modified":"2020-05-20T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T23:54:12","slug":"upcoming-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25033","title":{"rendered":"UPCOMING VOTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a vote this week on <a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xvcsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqssbsdd_zbwrsspmpkrsfzzrlwld.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xvcsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqssbsdd_zbwrsspmpkrsfzzrlwld.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1590103469930000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG-mVx94paby_jyKEH1N7UmCanPsQ\">President Trump<\/a>&#8216;s nominee to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, despite an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>According to a schedule released by Committee Chairman\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zpzdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqddldrm_zbwrsspmpkrsfzzrlwld.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zpzdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqddldrm_zbwrsspmpkrsfzzrlwld.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1590103469930000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFYVz_FkvZhAcTc9TvpfSwbt07GJg\">Jim Risch<\/a>&#8216;s (R-Idaho) office, the panel will vote on Michael Pack&#8217;s nomination as part of a business meeting on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to move forward with the nomination comes after Sen.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vpfmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzmmgmfp_zbwrsspmpkrsfzzrlwld.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vpfmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzmmgmfp_zbwrsspmpkrsfzzrlwld.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1590103469930000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGyi0zLoNb4Qs_5D1ppdxoVIZ2eaQ\">Robert Menendez<\/a>\u00a0(D-N.J.), the top Democrat on the committee, disclosed last week that Pack was under investigation by the D.C. attorney general&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Menendez&#8217;s disclosure, Risch referred questions to the Democratic senator. But Risch confirmed to The Hill that the attorney general&#8217;s office had &#8220;communicated&#8221; with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve turned it over to counsel, we&#8217;ll deal with it. But certainly that doesn&#8217;t disqualify him,&#8221; Risch said.<\/p>\n<p>The committee had initially been scheduled to vote on Pack&#8217;s nomination last week. But Risch postponed the meeting amid multiple requests from members to hold over items on its agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25034,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25033\/revisions\/25034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}