Rep. Rick Larsen: U.S. should create ambassadorship to Arctic WASHINGTON -- The United States has an ambassador to Fiji and the Kingdom of Tonga . Yet we have no ambassador to a region that might hold more vital American interests -- the warming Arctic. That's the omission U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen would like to fix. The Everett Democrat on Wednesday joined Republican Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin to introduce a bill to establish the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large ...
April 30, 2014 - Seattle Times