Amy GutmannWASHINGTON Feb 9 Germany, the press service of the upper house of Congress reported. In support of the candidacy proposed by President Joe Biden, 54 senators voted against — 42. Political scientist Gutmann has been president of the University of Pennsylvania since 2004, with which Biden is closely associated. Prior to that, she worked at other major American universities, including Princeton and Harvard. She has written or edited 17 books, many about «understanding and defending constitutional democracy and human rights,» the White House said. Guttmann is the daughter of a Jewish refugee from Germany. Her candidacy was opposed by a number of senators from the Republican opposition. They asked to check Gutmann in connection with Chinese financial injections into the university.
