Source: Stephen Davies, AGRI-PULSE, 2/2/17


Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee suspended committee rules this morning and approved the nomination of Scott Pruitt to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Democrats on the panel did not show up for a second straight day, but that did not prove to be an obstacle to the GOP majority, which voted 11-0 to send the nomination of Pruitt, now the attorney general of Oklahoma, to the full Senate for a vote.

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