Hearing next week for Minnesota ambassador nominees
Posted at 11:26 AM on July 17, 2009
by Tim Pugmire
The U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations will hold a hearing Wednesday on four ambassador nominations. Two Minnesotans are among the nominees.
President Barack Obama recently named Miguel Humberto Diaz, a professor of theology at Saint John's University and the College of Saint Benedict, as ambassador to the Vatican. He also picked Minneapolis lawyer Samuel Kaplan as ambassador to Morocco.
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