On Tuesday, Senate committees will hold a pair of confirmation hearings postponed last week: Former Georgia Rep. Doug Collins to serve as the next Veterans Affairs secretary and current New York Rep. Elise Stefanik to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
A cloud of controversy has hung over Hegseth, but he now appears to be on track to be confirmed as Trump's defense secretary.
Former Rep. Doug Collins, Donald Trump's pick to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, will appear before the Senate Veterans Committee on Tuesday morning around 9:30 a.m. Collins, an Iraq War veteran and former Air Force chaplain,
After President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office and Congress concludes the inaugural pageantry and the post-inauguration lunch on Monday, the Senate will get back to work. The first item on the Senate’s Trump nomination agenda appears sure to be the confirmation of one of their own.
Hegseth, 44, is a combat veteran and former Fox News host. The committee voted along party lines to advance his nomination to the full Senate.
The Senate will begin voting on President-elect Donald Trump’s top nominees in the coming week, with Republicans hoping Democrats will cooperate to confirm at least one on Inauguration Day.
The Senate Armed Services Committee on Monday advanced Pete Hegseth’s bid to become President Donald Trump’s defense secretary, sending his nomination to the Senate floor for a vote later this week.
Newly-minted Senate Republican leaders are scheduling hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks ahead of his inauguration on Jan. 20. Some of the nominees, like Pam Bondi, the pick for U.
Senate hearings are scheduled this coming week for several of Trump's picks for the Cabinet. Many have met with senators individually. Now, they will go before the committees overseeing the agencies that Trump wants them to run. Here's a look at the schedule for Senate hearings set so far, in Eastern time:
The Senate quickly confirmed Marco Rubio as secretary of state Monday, voting unanimously to give President Donald Trump the first member of his new Cabinet on Inauguration Day.
The confirmation hearings for Doug Collins and Doug Burgum ... to head up the Pentagon, faced a Senate confirmation grilling with the Armed Services Committee. President-elect Donald Trump ...
Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson and her nonprofit group sent a letter yesterday asking the Senate Armed Services Committee to allow an alleged victim