{"id":303989,"date":"2019-12-03T12:34:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T07:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=303989"},"modified":"2019-12-03T12:44:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T07:14:24","slug":"us-senate-confirms-trumps-pick-for-energy-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-senate-confirms-trumps-pick-for-energy-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate confirms Trump&#8217;s pick for Energy Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Senate has voted to confirm President Donald Trump&#8217;s pick Dan Brouillette as the next Energy Secretary. <\/p>\n<p>The 70-to-15 vote on Monday put Brouillette, the Trump administration&#8217;s Deputy Energy Secretary, in charge of the agency that manages the nation&#8217;s nuclear infrastructure and administers its energy policy, reports Xinhua news agency reported. <\/p>\n<p>Trump announced nominating Brouillette, 57, for the post in October after current Energy Secretary Rick Perry told him that he is leaving at the end of the year. <\/p>\n<p>Perry, the former Governor of Texas, has drawn scrutiny for his role in the administration&#8217;s alleged efforts to pressure Ukraine to launch investigations that could benefit Trump politically, which are at the centre of a Democratic-led impeachment inquiry into Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Senate has voted to confirm President Donald Trump&#8217;s pick Dan Brouillette as the next Energy Secretary. The 70-to-15 vote on Monday put Brouillette, the Trump administration&#8217;s Deputy Energy Secretary, in charge of the agency that manages the nation&#8217;s nuclear infrastructure and administers its energy policy, reports Xinhua news agency reported. Trump announced nominating Brouillette, 57, for the post in October after current Energy Secretary Rick Perry told him that he is leaving at the end of the year. Perry, the former Governor of Texas, has drawn scrutiny for his role in the administration&#8217;s alleged efforts to pressure Ukraine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}