{"id":6704,"date":"2021-01-19T09:55:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T14:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=6704"},"modified":"2021-01-19T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T15:19:32","slug":"joe-biden-nominees-slated-for-first-confirmation-hearings-in-u-s-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/01\/19\/joe-biden-nominees-slated-for-first-confirmation-hearings-in-u-s-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden nominees slated for first confirmation hearings in U.S. Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\r\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7O65HUrjMVY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Deb Haaland, Nominee to be Secretary of the Interior:\r\n<a hhef=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/12\/19\/i-am-honored-and-ready-to-serve-deb-haaland-and-the-joe-biden-administration\/>\u2018I am honored and ready to serve\u2019<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Joe Biden nominees slated for first confirmation hearings in U.S. Senate<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Tuesday, January 19, 2021<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nWith Democratic president-elect Joe Biden about to take office, some of his Cabinet nominees are getting their confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nOn Tuesday, five nominees will go before various <a href=https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/>U.S. Senate<\/a> committees and present their agendas for the new presidential administration:\r\n<P><\/p>\r\n<div class=mx-4>\r\nJanet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, <a href=https:\/\/www.finance.senate.gov\/hearings\/hearing-to-consider-the-anticipated-nomination-of-to-be-the-honorable-janet-l-yellen-to-secretary-of-the-treasury>Senate Committee on Finance<\/a>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence,  <a href=https:\/\/www.intelligence.senate.gov\/hearings\/open-hearing-nomination-avril-haines-be-director-national-intelligence>Senate Committee on Intelligence<\/a>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nAlejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, <a href=https:\/\/www.hsgac.senate.gov\/nomination-of-the-honorable-alejandro-n-mayorkas-to-be-secretary-us-department-of-homeland-security>Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs<\/a>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, <a href=https:\/\/www.foreign.senate.gov\/hearings\/nominations-011921>Senate Committee on Foreign Relations<\/a>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nLloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense, <a href=https:\/\/www.armed-services.senate.gov\/hearings\/21-01-19-nomination>Senate Committee on Armed Services<\/a>\r\n<\/div> \r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Confirmation hearings for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoeBiden<\/a> nominees<br>10am:Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury<br>10am:Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence<br>10am:Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security<br>2pm:Antony Blinken, Secretary of State<br>3pm:Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense<\/p>&mdash; indianz.com (@indianz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/indianz\/status\/1351532701254361092?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nAdditionally, Pete Buttigieg, a former Democratic candidate for president, will <a href=https:\/\/www.commerce.senate.gov\/2021\/1\/ni>go before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation<\/a> on Thursday. As former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Buttigieg has direct experience in tribal government issues, having worked with the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians  on land-into-trust and other matters.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe <a href=https:\/\/www.energy.senate.gov\/>Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources<\/a> has not yet announced a confirmation hearing for <a href=https:\/\/haaland.house.gov\/>Rep. Deb Haaland<\/a> (D-New Mexico) to be Secretary of the Interior. If confirmed, she would be the <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/12\/17\/deb-haaland-tapped-for-cabinet-by-president-elect-joe-biden\/>first Native person<\/a> to lead the <a href=https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/>Department of the Interior<\/a> and the <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/12\/19\/i-am-honored-and-ready-to-serve-deb-haaland-and-the-joe-biden-administration\/>first Native person<\/a> in a modern-day presidential cabinet.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nBiden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States during a ceremony at the heavily fortified U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.  The oath of office also will be administered to Kamala Harris, who will be the first woman, the first person of African descent and the first person of South Asian (Indian) descent to serve as vice president.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, goes before Senate Committee on Finance.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ATbUBCZJQT\">https:\/\/t.co\/ATbUBCZJQT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; indianz.com (@indianz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/indianz\/status\/1351533768507600904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, goes before Senate Committee on Intelligence.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/saEEH62sed\">https:\/\/t.co\/saEEH62sed<\/a><\/p>&mdash; indianz.com (@indianz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/indianz\/status\/1351533769568755712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>  \r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, goes before Senate Committee on Intelligence.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/saEEH62sed\">https:\/\/t.co\/saEEH62sed<\/a><\/p>&mdash; indianz.com (@indianz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/indianz\/status\/1351533769568755712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> \r\n<P><\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, goes before Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/glqkJO2IQa\">https:\/\/t.co\/glqkJO2IQa<\/a><\/p>&mdash; indianz.com (@indianz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/indianz\/status\/1351533771577827328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> \r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense, goes before Senate Committee on Armed Services.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nj6apPkIFm\">https:\/\/t.co\/Nj6apPkIFm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; indianz.com (@indianz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/indianz\/status\/1351533772622147590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>  \r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/19\/joebiden.jpg\" alt=\"joebiden\" class=\"invisible\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Democratic president-elect Joe Biden about to take office, some of his Cabinet nominees are getting their confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[869,1054,1055,1053,88,698,336,118,1060,1052,53,54,1056,1057,1058,25,440,91,1059,164,44],"class_list":["post-6704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-politics","tag-117th","tag-alejandro-mayorkas","tag-antony-blinken","tag-avril-haines","tag-deb-haaland","tag-defense","tag-dhs","tag-doi","tag-dot","tag-janet-yellen","tag-joe-biden","tag-kamala-harris","tag-lloyd-asutin","tag-lloyd-ausin","tag-lloyd-austin","tag-military","tag-pete-buttigieg","tag-senate","tag-state","tag-transportation","tag-women","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/19\/joebiden.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-1K8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}