Vote on Nominations of Wesley Brooks to be Asst. Secy. of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Billy Long to be Ambassador to Iceland, Robert Sweeney to be U.S. Director of the Asian Development Bank, and others

Senate Foreign Relations Committee
S-116 Capitol

03/11/2026 at 10:30AM

Full committee business meeting.

Nominees:

  • Dr. Wesley Brooks, of Florida, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
  • William “Billy” Long, of Missouri, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Iceland
  • Robert Sweeney, of Texas, to be United States Director of the Asian Development Bank, with the Rank of Ambassador

Added nominees:

  • Frank Garcia, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (African Affairs)
  • Lee Lipton, of Florida, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of the Philippines
  • Asel Roberts, of Virginia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Slovenia
  • Troy Edgar of California, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of El Salvador
  • Jared Novelly, of Missouri, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to New Zealand, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Independent State of Samoa, the Cook Islands, and Niue

The nomination hearing was February 12th. Fellow nominee Jeremy Carl’s nomination was stalled by bipartisan opposition to his overt white supremacism.