Did any of these four have committee hearings at least? Were they blocked by the GOP? Or were they like the new Medicare Director who never even had a hearing scheduled by the Dems?
President Barack Obama has appointed Maria del Carmen Aponte to be the next American ambassador to El Salvador. Aponte, a La Raza devotee, was nominated in 1998 by Bill Clinton to be ambassador to the Domincan Republic, but her name was withdrawn after revelations that she had intimate ties to an agent of the DGI, the Cuban intelligence agency.