Thursday, October 31
US Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, is holding up all State Department nominees to pressure the Biden Administration to impose tougher sanctions on the Russia-Germany Nord Stream 2 pipeline
Monday, July 5, 2021
, NBC News reports from Washington. Caught in the logjam are 13 posts, including two undersecretaries, three assistant secretaries, and ‘half a dozen’ Ambassadors. President Biden, a Democrat, is seeking a compromise with Germany that would lessen the financial damage and the security risk to Ukraine, a major transit country for Russian gas.
