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Tag: Confirmation

Trump’s pick for NIH director clears first hurdle before final confirmation vote

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions voted Thursday morning to lead Dr. Jay Batacharya of the National Institutes of Health to advance President Donald Trump's pick. The votes were strictly along the party line, with 12 votes in favor and 11 against 11, but Bhatacharya set sail to the finish line with […]

Watch live: Trump's CDC nominee Dave Weldon faces confirmation hearing

The Senate committee will consider President Trump's candidate to serve as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and former Congressman Dave Weldon (R-Fla.) at Thursday's confirmation hearing. Weldon, a doctor and Army veteran, was a seven-term lawmaker until 2008. He could face tough questions from Democrats about the Senate Health, Education, […]

Key takeaways from Marty Makary’s FDA confirmation hearing

Marty McCurry, a career surgeon and presidential candidate who runs Trump's Food and Drug Administration (FDA), faced the senator at a confirmation hearing Thursday and worked with the Make America Healthy Agenda to stop approving the recent controversial decision. McCurry's hearing before the Senate's Health, Education and Work Pensions Committee was relatively tame, as was […]

Lori Chavez-DeRemer moves on to final Senate confirmation vote

President Donald Trump's Labor Secretary's candidate, Lori Chavez Deremar, passed the final proceedings vote on Thursday, winning the final confirmation vote next week. She is now one step closer to becoming a secretary to the Department of Labor and will face a final vote on Monday. She recently gained bipartisan support for major Senate committees […]

Meet the man behind Kash Patel’s confirmation

Last week, Kash Patel was confirmed as the FBI director by a Senate majority despite being one of President Trump's most controversial candidates. But that wasn't easy. In fact, it was a tough process with tons of patience and strategy. Perhaps not Patel himself, anyone knows this better than Clint Brown, the president of American […]