Senate Confirms Ash Carter as Defense Secretary
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Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call(WASHINGTON) — The Senate confirmed Ash Carter as the next secretary of Defense with a vote of 93-5 on Thursday.
Carter, who was nominated to the post in December, earned bipartisan support throughout his confirmation process.
Carter, 60, is a veteran Pentagon official, recently serving as deputy secretary of Defense from 2011 to 2013. But he also has a unique background as a physicist and medieval historian by training. His aides once referred to him as the “600-pound brain in the room.”
Carter will replace Chuck Hagel as secretary of Defense and will be President Obama’s fourth defense secretary in six years.
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