The United States Senate approved, with a favorable 96-2 vote, the nomination of Charles Taylor Manatt as ambassador of the United States in the Dominican Republic. Manatt is a partner in the legal firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, LLP. Linda Watts, charge d’affairs of the US Embassy, and who has been acting ambassador since the departure of Ambassador Donna Hrinak two years ago, said that Manatt would like to be in the DR prior to Christmas.
