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US Senate confirms former Obama aide to head USAID
Power, who was nominated by President Joe Biden, was confirmed in a bipartisan vote of 68-26.
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Samantha Power, nominee to be Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill on March 23, 2021 in Washington,DC. (AFP/Greg Nash)
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he US Senate voted on Wednesday to confirm Samantha Power, the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, to lead the US Agency for International Development.
Power, who was nominated by President Joe Biden, was confirmed in a bipartisan vote of 68-26.
"I'm confident her experience, tenacity and drive to build a better, more prosperous, peaceful world are exactly what USAID and our country need at this moment," Bob Menendez, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on the Senate floor ahead of the vote.
Power, 50, a longtime human rights advocate, is a public policy professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and also served on the National Security Council.
A former journalist, Power also won a Pulitzer Prize for her 2002 book, "A Problem from Hell," that argues the United States has failed to prevent genocide.
