Carolhdg

This doesn't have anything to do with prep, but you're getting good advice from others. Think about the questions you may have about your ancestry, childhood, relatives, and ask those things now, while they're still lucid. Make video and audio of them answering. There are so many things I wish I had asked my dad, but I missed my chance. One of my most precious finds afterward was a video of my dad narrating as one of us drove him to all of the places he had known as a youth.

U N Ambassador nomination has not been announced yet.

Several ambassadors have been confirmed:
Ambassador to Japan – George Glass, 4/8/25, 66-32

Ambassador to Israel – Mike Huckabee, 4/9/25, 53-46

Ambassador to Canada – Peter Hoekstra, 4/9/25, 60-37

Ambassador to Mexico – Ronald Johnson, 4/9/25, 49-46

See first page, 2nd post for further details

John Phelan was confirmed as Secretary of the Navy today.

Two inside cats, one outside stray I'm trying to tame. I'm also feeding birds outside.

There is only one cabinet level position left: Elise Stefanik is awaiting confirmation as U N Ambassador. This week the Senate has mostly worked on confirming assistant secretaries and other ambassadors.

Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been confirmed as Secretary of Labor.

If your house is older, check the cable in your attic. We were having problems that we thought was Cox Internet related, but it turned out that it was our ancient cable. My husband put in a new one a few months ago and haven't had a problem since. Cox changed out the old cable from the box to our house about three years ago.

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In recent years it’s not uncommon for the Secretary of Labor confirmation to take months:

Tom Perez (Obama, 2nd term), July 23, 2013

Alexander Acosta (Trump, 1st term), April 28. 2017

Marty Walsh (Biden), March 23, 2021

Linda McMahon has been confirmed as Secretary of Education.

Two cabinet positions are left to be confirmed.

Jamieson Greer confirmed as U S Trade Representative.