SENATE STALEMATE
More signs of stagnation for imperiled Rayburn nomination
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee declined to bring his nomination to a vote and there are no apparent plans to call a vote on the Senate floor
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Joel Rayburn, then-deputy assistant secretary for Levant affairs and special envoy for Syria, speaks during a session on reconciliation and reconstruction at the 2019 World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa in Jordan on April 6, 2019.
This week brought more signs that progress on Joel Rayburn’s nomination to be assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs has ground to a halt, more than a month after his confirmation hearing in mid-May, with the Senate...