Key Points
President Joe Biden's close aide Eric Garcetti won confirmation Wednesday from a divided Senate as the nations next ambassador to India, more than a year and a half after he was first nominated by the President and after weathering doubts about his truthfulness in asexual harassment scandalinvolving a City Hall adviser...
At the White House, spokesperson Olivia Dalton said Mr. Biden believes that we have a crucial and consequential partnership with India and that Mayor Garcetti will make a strong and effective ambassador...
Last May, a top Senate Republicanreleased an investigation that concluded Mr. Garcetti likely knew or should have known that Jacobs was alleged to be sexually harassing city employees, a finding that appeared to contradict the mayors assertion that he was unaware of any inappropriate behavior..
On a politically divided vote, the committee again advanced the nomination to the full Senate early this month, though Jim Risch of Idaho, the top Republican on the panel, said that new evidence had raised questions about Garcettis judgment and prompted him to oppose the nomination...
Mr. Garcetticonsidered a 2020 White Houserun but later became part of Bidens inner circle, emerging as a widely discussed possibility to join the Cabinet.He took himself out of the runningafter many of the plum jobs had been filled, saying the coronavirus crisis at the time made it impossible for him to step away from City Hall..
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