At Tuesday's Senate Foreign Relations Committee business meeting, Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, tabled the nomination of Matthew Bryza to be the next ambassador to Azerbaijan, deferring to a request for a delay from Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-CA, Foreign Policy magazine reported.
Bryza nomination could come up again during the next meeting in September.
But the committee did approve, with one unanimous voice vote, the nominations of 32 other would-be ambassadors and officials, sending them on to the full Senate.
Among the notable names are Jim Jeffrey to be envoy to Iraq, Frank Ricciardone to be ambassador to Turkey, current U.N. deputy representative Alejandro D. Wolff to be ambassador to Chile, Holbrooke deputy Paul Jones to be ambassador to Malaysia, and deputy assistant secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Scot Marcial to be the next envoy to Indonesia.