{"id":226741,"date":"2026-06-24T11:19:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226741\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:19:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:19:57","slug":"erie-county-native-glides-through-senate-confirmation-to-serve-as-u-s-ambassador-to-osce-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226741\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County Native Glides Through Senate Confirmation to Serve as U.S. Ambassador to OSCE\u00a0\u00a0 | Washington D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0\u2014 The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Erie County native Darrell Owens to become the U.S. representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), with the rank of ambassador.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Owens received bipartisan support in a 67-30 vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Waterford, Pa. native currently serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He was sworn into his current role in February 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Owens, a graduate of the Air Force Air Command and Staff College and the U.S. Army War College, is also a U.S. Army Reserve officer.\u00a0He spent\u00a0nearly 14\u00a0years on Capitol Hill as a national security adviser to former Republican Sen. Pat Toomey\u00a0and also\u00a0worked for Rep. Glenn \u2018GT\u2019 Thompson, R-Pa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local lawmakers, including Thompson, were quick to praise his Senate confirmation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am\u00a0really proud\u00a0of Ambassador Darrell Owens, a Pennsylvania native and former military legislative\u00a0assistant\u00a0to my office. I know he will make the United States equally proud serving overseas,\u201d Thompson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDarrell Owens has spent his career serving the American people. I am pleased to see his confirmation process advance in the U.S. Senate,\u201d said Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0\u2014 The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Erie County native Darrell Owens to become the U.S. representative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2288,136,138,137,2287,2286,2289],"class_list":["post-226741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-bureau","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-u-s-capitol","tag-washington-d-c","tag-washington-d-c-bureau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}