{"id":678848,"date":"2026-06-24T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=678848"},"modified":"2026-07-08T13:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:18:27","slug":"audio-nomination-hearing-to-consider-mark-cruz-to-be-director-of-the-indian-health-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/06\/24\/audio-nomination-hearing-to-consider-mark-cruz-to-be-director-of-the-indian-health-service\/","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO: Nomination Hearing to consider Mark Cruz to be Director of the Indian Health Service"},"content":{"rendered":"Senate Committee on Indian Affairs<BR>\r\nNomination Hearing to consider Mark Cruz to be Director of the Indian Health Service<BR>\r\nDate: June 24, 2026<BR>\r\nTime: 10:00 AM<BR>\r\nLocation: Dirksen\r\nRoom: 628\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<strong>PLAYLIST: <a href=https:\/\/on.soundcloud.com\/YE6yiyNLOmVONjAjKR>on.soundcloud.com\/YE6yiyNLOmVONjAjKR<\/a><\/strong>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; 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encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2345420837&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;inverse=false&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_user=false\"><\/iframe> \r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">\r\nSenate Committee on Indian Affairs Notice<\/div>\r\n<a href=https:\/\/www.indian.senate.gov\/hearings\/nomination-hearing-to-consider-mark-cruz-to-be-director-of-the-indian-health-service-department-of-health-and-human-services\/>Nomination Hearing to consider Mark Cruz to be Director of the Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services<\/a> (June 24, 2026)","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs holds a nomination hearing to consider Mark Cruz to be the Director of the Indian Health Service.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-audio.php","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[340,19,1,14],"tags":[5366,75,248,210,205,85,213,91,297],"class_list":["post-678848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-health","category-national","category-politics","tag-119th","tag-donald-trump","tag-hhs","tag-ihs","tag-mark-cruz","tag-republicans","tag-scia","tag-senate","tag-tom-cole","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-2QBa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/30\/IndianzComDefaultImage.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678848","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=678848"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679045,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678848\/revisions\/679045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}