Senate Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) filed motions this week seeking to bring about full Senate votes for President Donald Trump’s nominees to head the Department of Energy and the Department of Interior.
Thune filed cloture motions Monday seeking to spark floor votes on Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright to be secretary of energy and former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) to be secretary of interior. News of the cloture motions initially appeared on the social media platform X as well as a Senate website.
Cloture is a formal Senate process that requires 60 votes to block a filibuster and bring an issue to the full Senate floor for a vote. Both nominees were voted out of committee last week following confirmation hearings earlier in the month.
According to national news outlets, Wright and Burgum are considered among President Trump’s less controversial nominees in the early days of Trump’s second administration.
NEW: Via public records request, I’ve been able to confirm reporting today that a warrant has been issued for DOE deputy asst. secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition Sam Brinton for another luggage theft, this time at Las Vegas’s Harry Reid airport. (cc: @EMPublications)
DOE spent fuel lead Brinton accused of second luggage theft.
by @BenjaminSWeiss, confirming today's reports with warrant from Las Vegas Metro PD.
Waste has been Emplaced! 🚮
We have finally begun emplacing defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of #WIPP.
Read more about the waste emplacement here: https://wipp.energy.gov/wipp_news_20221123-2.asp
Editorial: Sam Brinton’s credibility is now an issue 🔓