The Senate confirmed former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum in a bipartisan fashion to lead President Donald Trump’s Department of Interior Thursday evening. Senators overwhelmingly approved Burgum’s ...

former GOP congressman from Georgia Doug Collins. Amid the slew of confirmation hearings that have taken place, Hirono has been unafraid to poke and prod about nominees' sex lives, and at one ...

Mazie Hirono was the only lawmaker on the Senate's Veterans’ Affairs Committee to oppose the confirmation of President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, ...

“Governor Burgum submitted his paperwork to the ... Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing for former U.S. Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, whom Trump plans to nominate for VA secretary, and an ...

Doug Burgum’s hearing, which had been scheduled ... Trump announced in November that he had selected the former Georgia congressman to lead the VA.

The Senate battle to confirm President-elect Trump’s Cabinet picks will begin in earnest on Tuesday, as his controversial pick to lead the Pentagon, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, meets the Senate ...

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Doug Burgum The North Dakota governor (estimated ... of programs across the federal government. Kelly Loeffler The Georgia businesswoman named to lead the Small Business Administration was the ...

Here's a look at the schedule for Senate hearings set so far, in Eastern time: 9 a.m.: Doug Collins, Department of Veterans Affairs The former Georgia ... 10 a.m.: Doug Burgum, Interior Department ...