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Trump nominees will face Senate scrutiny this week

Many of Trump’s nominees to serve in Cabinet and advisory roles are slated to appear this week for hearings before Senate committees, a key test for many of them.

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Senate’s week packed with nomination hearings for Trump’s Cabinet picks

Energy committee chairman Sen. Mike Lee postponed Burgum's hearing, saying his paperwork was unnecessarily delayed.

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Trump’s Cabinet picks are set for Senate hearings. Here’s the schedule

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:

Jim Justice, Senate and West Virginia

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Jim Justice officially sworn in for United States Senate seat

One day after turning the keys to the Governor’s Mansion over to Patrick Morrisey, Jim Justice was sworn in to begin his six-year term in the U.S. Senate Tuesday. Justice took his oath of office Tuesday afternoon in the U.

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West Virginia’s former governor Justice takes Senate oath of office

Jim Justice, former governor of West Virginia, took the oath of office for the Senate Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. A former billionaire whose family businesses include coal mines and the operation of The Greenbrier resort,

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West Virginia’s US Senator Jim Justice sworn into office

West Virginia now has a new Senator representing the state on Capitol Hill. Senator Jim Justice (R-WV) was officially sworn in Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Justice is one of 52 Republican Senators in the 119th Congress,

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Rubio vows to place US interests ‘above all else’ as Trump’s top diplomat

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is promising to implement President-elect Donald Trump’s “America First” vision as secretary of ...

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Iowa's US Sen. Joni Ernst will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense

Iowa's Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst said Tuesday she will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth to lead the U.S. Department of ...

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Hegseth emerges from tough Senate hearing with confirmation vote on track

Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee to lead the Pentagon, withstood hours of questioning during his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing.

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Question on ASEAN stumped Hegseth at Senate hearing. What is it and why is it important?

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, grilling President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary over whether he had the “breadth ...

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When presidents would send handwritten lists of their nominees to the Senate, things were a lot different

The US now faces the likelihood of a bruising and raucous set of confirmation hearings − a clear break from the cooperative ...

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Hegseth survives attacks from Democrats in testy Senate hearing

Pete Hegseth on Tuesday battled through a high-stakes Senate hearing in which Democrats sought to paint the Pentagon nominee ...

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Senate immigration bill aims to overturn Supreme Court precedent in a sea change for legal system, experts say

Anti-immigrant state officials and federal judges would have new power to dictate immigration enforcement– including whether ...

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