Senate confirms John Ratcliffe to be Trump's CIA director
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to confirm John Ratcliffe as the next CIA director, approving the second high-level ...
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Watch: Lee Zeldin testifies at administrator of the environmental protection agency confirmation hearing
Lee Zeldin, a close and longtime ally of President-elect Donald Trump, has promised to dismantle “left wing” environmental regulations as the next leader of the EPA. At his confirmation ...
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Ex-Rep. Lee Zeldin moves closer to confirmation to lead Environmental Protection Agency
WASHINGTON — Former Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin moved a step closer to confirmation ... where Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) will decide when to bring the nomination up ...
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One Democrat breaks with party to support Zeldin
Lee Zeldin, President Donald Trump’s nominee for EPA administrator, cleared a hurdle Thursday on his way toward Senate confirmation. The Environment and Public Works Committee voted 11-8 to ...
John Ratcliffe Confirmed as C.I.A. Director
He has offered a vision for a more aggressive spy agency, and his focus on the threat from China is widely shared by Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
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Ex-Rep. Lee Zeldin tells senators he would not favor industry over the environment as EPA chief
WASHINGTON — Former Long Island congressman Lee ... Zeldin also agreed to work with several of the Republican senators on local environmental issues, such as concerns that Sen. John Curtis ...
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Zeldin pledges more 'common sense' at EPA during Senate hearing
Zeldin has little experience heading an agency. Former U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Long Island Republican and President-elect Donald J. Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency ...
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WATCH: Lee Zeldin testifies at Senate confirmation hearing for EPA administrator
Lee Zeldin said Americans deserve a clean environment “without suffocating the economy” during his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a ...
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Zeldin grilled by Democrats on climate change, Trump’s stance on carbon emissions during EPA hearing
Former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin sat ... He pressed Zeldin to disclose whether he believes climate change is an existential threat. By contrast, Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, praised ...
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Lee Zeldin, Trump’s E.P.A. Nominee, Is Short on Environmental Experience
Former New York congressman Lee Zeldin ... seemed confident that they had an ally in Mr. Zeldin. He was introduced at the hearing by Senator John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming, where coal ...
John Ratcliffe confirmed by the Senate to become Trump’s CIA director
Ratcliffe, 59, is the first person to have served as both director of national intelligence and chief of the CIA.