Senate Confirms Pack to Head US Agency for Global Media
The Senate confirmed U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO nominee Michael Pack Thursday on a party-line 53-38 vote. USAGM, formerly the Broadcasting Board of Governors, oversees Voice of America and other government-funded news and information broadcasts. No Democrats voted to…
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confirm Pack, who also was opposed by party members on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (see 2006020013). Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and eight Democrats didn’t vote, including Communications Subcommittee ranking member Brian Schatz of Hawaii. President Donald Trump nominated Pack, president of Manifold Productions, in 2018 and re-upped it in February after the Senate failed to consider him last Congress (see 2002250053).