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                  US Senate Confirms Obama Nominee to UN Post

   The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm President Barack Obama`s selection
   for ambassador to the United Nations, approving human rights advocate
   Samantha Power by a vote of 87-10.
   Power, a 43-year-old former journalist and National Security Council
   staff expert, was described Thursday by Senate Foreign Relations
   Committee chairman Robert Menendez as "a tireless defender of human
   rights."
   Power won one of journalism`s highest awards -- the 2003 Pulitzer Prize
   -- for a book describing what she called timid U.S. responses to human
   rights crises, including massacres in Rwanda and Bosnia in the 1990s.
   She most recently called the U.N. failure to end widespread killing in
   Syria`s civil war "a disgrace that history will judge harshly."
   A White House statement Thursday called Power "a fierce advocate for
   universal rights" and one of America`s leading foreign policy thinkers.
   Power is among seven presidential nominees approved by the Senate since
   Republican and Democratic leaders struck a deal in mid-July aimed at
   averting drastic Senate rules changes.
   The rules changes would have ended the ability of minority parties to
   block votes on presidential nominees by launching endless debate aimed
   at stalling or preventing actual votes.
   Faced with the permanent loss of the stalling tactic known as the
   filibuster, minority Republicans agreed to move forward with votes on
   the seven nominees in the Democrat-controlled chamber.
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