Life might get a little tougher for non-career ambassadors under legislation approved this week by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Nestled in the Taiwan Policy Act, which is now before the full Senate, is a provision from Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) that would require the State Department to conduct annual, anonymous, voluntary surveys of U.S. citizen staff at every post assessing the quality of their leadership.
It envisions that significant deficiencies could go to the State Department Inspector General, and requires annual reports to Congress that include “the posts where corrective action was recommended or taken in response to any issues identified by the surveys.”
The idea, according to Kaine’s office, is to “encourage the nomination of more qualified non-career nominees by increasing oversight of their performance.”
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