President Joe Biden intends to nominate Charlie Crist as an ambassador, the White House said on Wednesday.

The announcement comes about seven months after Crist lost his bid to defeat Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and reclaim his old job after more than a decade.

In particular, Crist is being picked to be the U.S. representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) with the rank of ambassador. The ICAO, an agency of the United Nations which has its headquarters in Montreal, is focused on promoting civil aviation safety.

Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the “Miracle on the Hudson” pilot famous for making a 2009 emergency landing in the Hudson River, served as U.S. representative to ICAO after being confirmed by the Senate in late 2021, but he abruptly decided to step down that following summer.

Crist, who has swapped parties over the years, previously served as Florida attorney general, governor, and then as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He resigned from Congress in late August after beating Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried in the Democratic Party’s primary in the governor’s race.

Despite receiving a campaign boost from Biden, who called the Florida gubernatorial election “one of the most important races in the country,” Crist lost by double digits to DeSantis.

“Former Democratic Rep. Charlie Crist gets a consolation prize from Biden,” observed Punchbowl News co-founder John Bresnahan in response to the White House nomination announcement.

Crist’s old House seat is now held by Republican Anna Paulina Luna, who won the general election contest to represent Florida’s redrawn 13th Congressional District. Several weeks after former President Donald Trump praised Crist for doing a “good job” as governor in an attack on DeSantis. DeSantis announced he is running for president last month.

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Crist is “a political leader and attorney” who “has dedicated his life to public service,” the White House said. Its statement also touted how Crist “guided the state through challenging times, including the Great Recession and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill” as Florida governor.

“Despite drastic budget shortfalls due to the economic crisis, he made public education a top priority, steering federal stimulus funding to save thousands of teachers’ jobs,” the White House added. “He is also a staunch environmental advocate, working at the federal and state levels to help secure billions in public and private aid to restore the Florida Everglades.”

Former Attorney General Bill Barr is pushing back on remarks that House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) made this week claiming that Barr had shut down an investigation into a document from an FBI confidential source that alleged that then-Vice President Joe Biden was involved in a criminal bribery scheme.

“It’s not true. It wasn’t closed down,” Barr said in an interview. “On the contrary, it was sent to Delaware for further investigation.”

Barr’s remarks came in response Raskin claiming on Monday that Barr ended an investigation into an FBI document that allegedly claims that Biden accepted a $5 million bribe from an adversarial country.

“What I know is that the FBI, Department of Justice team under William Barr and Scott Brady, in the Western District of Pennsylvania terminated the investigation, they said there were no grounds for further investigative steps,” Raskin claimed after viewing the document with Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY). “So they ended that.”

Comer told reporters after viewing the document that he would hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress after the bureau refused to hand over the document. The FBI is now reportedly willing to let the entire Committee view the document as early as Wednesday, CNN reported.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said that if Wray shows the entire Committee the document, Republicans will drop their efforts to hold Wray in contempt.

“All he has to do is follow through and allow everybody on the committee” to view it, McCarthy said. “If he would supply that to them, there wouldn’t be a contempt [vote]. That’s all we’re asking him to do. It’s rational. It’s sensible. It’s what his responsibility is to do. If he won’t follow through on the most basic things, then he’ll be held in contempt.”

Comer also told reporters on Monday that “FBI officials confirmed that the unclassified FBI generated record has not been disproven, and is currently being used in an ongoing investigation.”

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“The confidential human source who provided information about then-Vice President Biden being involved in a criminal bribery scheme, is a trusted, highly credible informant who has been used by the FBI for over 10 years, and has been paid over six figures,” he added.