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Trump’s nominee to serve as Ambassador to Singapore, orthopedic and sports medicine surgeon Dr. Anjani (Anji) Sinha, was blasted and berated during his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, after he appeared unable to answer critical questions about the role Singapore plays in U.S. national security and security in the Indo-Pacific region.
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), a decorated Iraq War veteran and retired lieutenant colonel, pressed Dr. Sinha with pointed questions—particularly about Singapore’s role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a bloc of ten member countries that includes Singapore.
“What does holding the ASEAN chairmanship entail for Singapore?” Senator Duckworth asked. “Can you name one thing? A role that they would have to play as ASEAN chair?”
“Well, you know that there—this is ASEAN chair is not only one country that are ten countries in—” Dr. Sinha replied.
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“No, the ASEAN chair is one country,” Duckworth explained.
“But there are 10 countries involved as the ASEAN group,” Sinha responded.
“You’re not answering my question. You’re not answering my question, sir,” said Duckworth, who sits on the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee and on the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. “Can you name one thing there will be of critical importance to Singapore as ASEAN Chair? A role? There are many things. Can you name one thing?”
“Defense, economics…” Sinha offered.
“Those are very broad. Name an issue,” Duckworth demanded.
“Trade,” Sinha said.
“I don’t think…no,” Duckworth replied.
The questions continued, with Duckworth appearing extremely dissatisfied with Sinha’s answers.
“Please,” she finally said, “I’m trying to help you here, but you’ve not even done your homework, sir. You want to be ambassador to Singapore, one of the most important alliances, friends we have in the Indo-Pacific. A key place that we’re going to be fighting against our greatest adversary in the region, the PRC,” she explained, referring to the People’s Republic of China.
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“Singapore may feature incredible culture, but that should not be treated as a glamour posting,” Duckworth continued. “This nation is too important to the United States, to ASEAN, to the entire region. And frankly, I think the mission is important to U.S. interests and national security, and it should actually be a foreign service officer.”
“But I have even larger concerns with the political pick, when that political pick is somebody as unqualified as you,” she charged. “I’ve opposed political picks for Singapore from Democrats. So this is not a partisan issue. I just feel that you are not taking this seriously, and you think this is a glamour posting that you’re going to live a nice life in Singapore. What we need is someone who’s going to actually do the work.”
“You are not currently prepared for this posting, period,” Duckworth concluded, “and you need to shape up and do some homework.”
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Utterly trash': Fox News faces backlash after attacking amputee Tammy Duckworth for using veteran benefits
October 04, 2021
Fox News faced backlash over the weekend due to a report about Sen. Tammy Duckworth's taxes.
In a column on Sunday, Fox News writer Dom Calicchio reported that Duckworth had not paid property tax o....
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day after it was reported that Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) would be allowed to bring her newborn daughter Maile Pearl Bowlsbey onto the Senate floor if necessary, a conservative pundit for Turning Point USA lamented the impact that baby could have on future legislation that might affect children and mothers.
After there were complaints about how having a nursing newborn among the mostly male Senate might affect the political body’s “decorum,” Richard Armande Mills took to Twitter to express misgivings.
“I agree with their statements on “decorum.” Not because I have a problem with babies at the workplace, but because I have issues with Duckworth potentially being able to weaponize that baby to affect legislative decision making. And I could see her doing that,” Mills tweeted.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Duckworth
Ladda Tammy Duckworth (born March 12, 1968) is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative forIllinois's 8th congressional district since 2013. A Democrat, she is the first Asian American woman elected to Congress in Illinois, the first disabled woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and the first member of Congress born in Thailand. Her father, an American, and her mother of Chinese descent were working and living there at the time. She grew up and studied languages in several places in Asia, and graduated from high school and university in Hawaii. She later studied in Washington, D.C. and Illinois. While a student, she joined the U.S. Army Reserve and trained as a helicopter pilot.
Duckworth previously served as Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs from April 24, 2009, to June 30, 2011, and as the Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs from November 21, 2006, to February 8, 2009.
An Iraq War veteran, Duckworth served as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot and suffered severe combat wounds, losing both of her legs and damaging her right arm. She was the first female double amputee from the war.[1] Having received a medical waiver, she continued to serve as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Illinois Army National Guard along with her husband, Major Bryan W. Bowlsbey, a signal officer and fellow Iraq War veteran.[2] Duckworth retired from the army in October 2014, and was reelected to Congress in November.
Duckworth is running for the U.S. Senate in 2016.
Contents
- 1Early life, education, and military service
- 2Post-military career
- 3U.S. House of Representatives
- 42016 U.S. Senate campaign
- 5Political positions
- 6Personal life
- 7Electoral history
- 8See also
- 9References
- 10External links
Early life, education, and military service[edit]
Tammy Duckworth was born in Bangkok, Thailand, to Franklin and Lamai Duckworth. Her American father, who died in 2005,[3] was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who traced his family's American roots to before the Revolutionary War. Her Thai mother is of Chinese ancestry.[4] Because of her father's work with the United Nations and international companies, the family moved around Southeast Asia. Duckworth became fluent in Thai and Indonesian, in addition to English.[5]
The family settled in Hawaii when she was sixteen. Duckworth attended Singapore American School, and for a few months in her senior year was at the International School Bangkok. She graduated with honors from McKinley High School in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1985, after skipping the ninth grade. She graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science, and received a Master of Arts in international affairs from George Washington University.[6]
Following in the footsteps of her father who served in World War II and ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War,[4] Duckworth joined the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps as a graduate student at George Washington University in 1990. She became a commissioned officer in the United States Army Reserve in 1992 and chose to flyhelicopters because it was one of the few combat jobs open to women. As a member of the Army Reserve, she went toflight school, later transferring to the Army National Guard and entering the Illinois Army National Guard in 1996.[7]Duckworth also worked as a staff supervisor at Rotary International headquarters in Evanston, Illinois.[8][9]
Duckworth was working towards a Ph.D. in political science at Northern Illinois University, with research interests in thepolitical economy and public health in southeast Asia, when she was deployed to Iraq in 2004.[8] She lost her right leg near the hip and her left leg below the knee[10] from injuries sustained on November 12, 2004, when the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter she was co-piloting was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Iraqi insurgents.[11] She was the first female double amputee from the Iraq war.[1] The explosion "almost completely destroyed her right arm, breaking it in three places and tearing tissue from the back side of it".[12] The doctors "reset the bones in her arm and stitched the cuts" to save her arm.[12] Duckworth received a Purple Heart on December 3 and was promoted to Major on December 21 at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where she was presented with an Air Medal and Army Commendation Medal.[11] She retired from the Illinois Army National Guard in October 2014 as a lieutenant colonel.[13] She returned to school and completed a PhD in Human Services at Capella University in March 2015.[14]
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