WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Republican Senator Marco Rubio, a China hawk and staunch backer of Israel, as President Donald Trump’s secretary of state.
A majority of the 100-member Senate backed Rubio as voting continues days after the long-term member of the Senate foreign relations and intelligence committees sailed through his friendly confirmation hearing.
(Reporting Patricia Zengerle, Simon Lewis (JO:LEWJ), Richard Cowan and Ryan Patrick Jones)
