{"id":392759,"date":"2010-03-05T11:50:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthonyclarkarend.com\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2010-03-05T11:50:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:50:40","slug":"erin-conaton-finally-confirmed-by-senate-to-be-under-secretary-of-the-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/392759","title":{"rendered":"Erin Conaton finally confirmed by Senate to be Under Secretary of the Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 237px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Erin Conaton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/web\/091119-F-2270A-252.JPG\" alt=\"New Under Secretary of the Air Force, Erin Conaton\" width=\"227\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Under Secretary of the Air Force, Erin Conaton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As numerous posts have noted, Erin Conaton&#8217;s nomination to be Under Secretary of the Air Force had been &#8220;on hold&#8221; for some time. Yesterday, the Senate finally confirmed her. The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2010\/03\/airforce_conaton_030410w\/\"> Air Force Times reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Air Force has a No. 2 civilian leader for the first time since August 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate confirmed Erin Conaton as undersecretary of the Air Force on March 4 after months of political wrangling.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby, the Republican senators from Alabama, had placed holds on her nomination because they were upset over the Air Force\u2019s handling of the KC-X tanker competition, among other things. The holds were lifted without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing earlier that day, Sessions told Air Force Secretary Michael Donley that he was still upset about the tanker competition and that \u201cthis [was] not going to go away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sessions spokeswoman Sarah Haley declined to comment on why the holds were lifted. Shelby\u2019s office could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Conaton was nominated by President Obama on Nov. 10.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Many, many congrats to my friend Erin on her confirmation!\u00a0 She will be a wonderful asset to the Air Force and exercise great leadership in her new position!<\/p>\n<p>(HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/~elliott\/faculty\/shaw.cfm\">Doug Shaw<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AnthonyClarkArend\/~4\/9DxGYXFnP7s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Under Secretary of the Air Force, Erin Conaton As numerous posts have noted, Erin Conaton&#8217;s nomination to be Under Secretary of the Air Force had been &#8220;on hold&#8221; for some time. Yesterday, the Senate finally confirmed her. The Air Force Times reports: The Air Force has a No. 2 civilian leader for the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}