{"id":129988,"date":"2025-03-27T10:34:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T15:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=129988"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T15:39:55","slug":"senate-committee-schedules-confirmation-hearing-for-interior-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2025\/03\/27\/senate-committee-schedules-confirmation-hearing-for-interior-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate committee schedules confirmation hearing for Interior nominee"},"content":{"rendered":" \"Department<\/a>
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Senate committee schedules confirmation hearing for Interior nominee<\/div>\r\n
Thursday, March 27, 2025<\/div>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\nThe Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources<\/a> has scheduled an April 2 confirmation hearing for Katharine MacGregor<\/a> to serve as Deputy Secretary of the Interior.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe upcoming hearing<\/a> comes more than two months after President Donald Trump nominated MacGregor for the political post. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate<\/a>, she would be the second-in-command at the Department of the Interior<\/a>, the federal agency with the most trust and treaty responsibilities in Indian Country.\r\n

<\/P>\r\n“Katharine is currently Vice President of Environmental Services at NextEra Energy, Inc., and previously worked at the Department of the Interior during my first four years as President,” Trump said on January 11<\/a>. “She helped us in our quest to make our Nation Energy DOMINANT, and was also an integral part of the team that produced our Historic \u201cSalute to America\u201d at the National Mall.”\r\n

<\/P>\r\nCurrently, Secretary Doug Burgum<\/a> is the only Senate-confirmed nominee at Interior. He won bipartisan approval on January 30<\/a> but the Republican-controlled chamber has not considered any of his fellow departmental nominees in the nearly two months since then.\r\n

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A citizen of the Navajo Nation is being tapped to serve as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs though it\u2019s not the person who was publicly lobbying for the job.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t

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<\/P>\r\nThe pending Interior nominees include:\r\n

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