When will Sam Fox take his functions as US Ambassador to Belgium?

Question

When will Sam Fox take his functions as US Ambassador to Belgium?

Answer 1

not sure if Congress will allow this to happen ? since Bush :

WASHINGTON: Democrats demanded an investigation into whether President George W. Bush acted legally in appointing Sam Fox, a major Republican fundraiser, as the next U.S. ambassador to Belgium.

On Wednesday, Bush named Fox to the post as a recess appointment, which let him bypass Congress, where Democrats had derailed the nomination a week earlier.

"We view the recess appointment of Mr. Fox as a clear abuse of the president's recess appointment power," three Democratic senators wrote in a letter Thursday to the Government Accountability Office, Congress' auditing agency.

The senators — Democrats Christopher Dodd, John Kerry and Robert Casey — also asked whether Fox's appointment could be terminated if a Senate vote rejected him.

Democrats have denounced Fox for his donation to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth during the 2004 presidential campaign. The group's TV ads claimed that Kerry, the Democrats' presidential nominee, had exaggerated his military record in Vietnam, where he was awarded three Purple Heart medals for wounds and two major awards for valor in combat. The advertisements were viewed as a factor in his election loss.

here is the news article on this matter :

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/0...

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