Last week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 13-8 in favor of his nomination.His nomination was not brought to the Senate floor for a vote during the last Congress as the ruling Democratic Party did not have enough support to get the close aide of Biden through.
Garcetti, 52, was not confirmed by the Senate in President Biden’s first two years in office amid concerns by some lawmakers that the then-mayor had not adequately handled allegations against a former senior adviser of sexual assault and harassment.
President Biden renominated Garcetti to the same position in January this year. Kenneth Juster, the last occupant of the ambassadorial residence of the US in New Delhi, stepped down in January 2021 after the change of government in America.
Source:- The Economic Times
Who Is Eric Garcetti, The New US Ambassador To India?
Eric Garcetti was born on February 4, 1971, in California. H was then raised in the San Fernando Valley and earned his BA and MA from Columbia University.
The new US envoy to India studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and the London School of Economics and taught at Occidental College and USC. He was an officer in the US Navy reserve for 12 years and is an avid jazz pianist and photographer.
Source: First Post
Garcetti was elected four times by his peers to serve as President of the Los Angeles City Council from 2006 to 2012. From 2001 until taking office as Mayor, he also served as the Council member representing the 13th District which includes Hollywood, Echo Park, Silver Lake, and Atwater Village. A fourth-generation Angeleno, Garcetti and his wife Amy Elaine Wakeland have a young daughter.
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