Power, who was nominated by President Joe Biden, was confirmed
in a bipartisan vote of 68-26.
"I'm confident her experience, tenacity and drive to build a
better, more prosperous, peaceful world are exactly what USAID
and our country need at this moment," Bob Menendez, the chair of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on the Senate floor
ahead of the vote.
Power, 50, a longtime human rights advocate, is a public policy
professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and also served on the
National Security Council.
A former journalist, Power also won a Pulitzer Prize for her
2002 book, "A Problem from Hell," that argues the United States
has failed to prevent genocide.
(Reporting by Makini Brice and Michelle NicholsEditing by Sonya
Hepinstall)
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