{"id":4541,"date":"2025-01-07T15:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T15:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/duffy-confirmation-hearing-tentatively-set\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T15:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T15:03:40","slug":"duffy-confirmation-hearing-tentatively-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/duffy-confirmation-hearing-tentatively-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Duffy confirmation hearing tentatively set"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Senate Commerce Committee is tentatively planning to hold a confirmation hearing for Sean Duffy, the DOT secretary nominee, on Jan. 15, a committee aide confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Further scheduling details weren\u2019t immediately available. <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/article\/senate\/immigration-icc-votes-senate-gop-lines-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">Punchbowl News first reported the date<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b> Duffy is a former House member from Wisconsin and has worked as a personality on Fox Business. He was also a district attorney in his home state.<\/p>\n<p>His path to confirmation, barring some revelation, appears to be smooth. Several Commerce members, both Republicans and Democrats, <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/newsletter\/2024\/12\/musk-stopgap-plans-crumple-00195215\" target=\"_blank\">have so far been positive<\/a> about Duffy\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n<p><b>What to watch:\u00a0<\/b>Electric vehicle policies, the next surface transportation bill, Boeing and discretionary grant programs at DOT may emerge as big topics at the hearing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Commerce Committee is tentatively planning to hold a confirmation hearing for Sean Duffy, the DOT secretary nominee, on Jan. 15, a committee aide confirmed Tuesday. Further scheduling details weren\u2019t immediately available. Punchbowl News first reported the date. Background: Duffy is a former House member from Wisconsin and has worked as a personality on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}