The Senate confirmation hearing on President-elect Trump’s nominee for head of the Department of Transportation was a Sunday walk down a quiet rural highway, just as the Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday ( and it was ).  ,
But then again, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation prides itself on its kindness, its comradeship. As president Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, literally put it, the more elegant commission is a place of flowers in the locks and for the performing of Kumbaya.  ,
A span? Yes. After all, this is still elections in the fierce conflict between blue and red. The Transportation Committee may be one of the few genuinely republican shops in D.C., in contrast to the Senate Armed Services Committee, where Hegseth endured brutal and specious hostile fire from lying, rhetoric liberals. Nothing brings politicians along like spending money on huge, gorgeous transportation projects. President-elect Trump is a contractor, after all, and he’s huge been all-in on transport and infrastructure investing.  ,
And Trump’s Transportation candidate, Sean Duffy, a previous four-plus-term Wisconsin senator and past Fox Business co-host with a solid conservative lineage, is expected to have a smooth path to verification. He’s known for his cross-agenda work, especially on significant transit bills for his house state, whose deeply divided senators, Madison communist Tammy Baldwin and core liberal Ron Johnson, cordially welcomed him as the nominee.
It truly was a lot of nicey-nice in the reading area. But then again confirmation hearings always feel much more affable when Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, “technically the dumbest member of Congress” according to comedian Adam Carolla, isn’t involved ( How many committees is that gaslighting gas bag on, anyway? )  ,
Duffy’s got a bit going for him. Maybe No. One item on that list is that he is not the current blundering Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, but the upward-failing social climber who has done a variety on the organization he has been so poorly served over the past four decades.  ,
” You are definitely when qualified as our present Department of Transportation minister, and I voted for him”, said Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska.  ,
A Golden Age of Travel is a
In the council room, there was a family environment. Duffy was joined by his better quarter, Rachel Campos-Duffy, and eight of the child’s nine children.  ,
” As a further of nine children, I think about travel quite a bit, and travel safety”, he told the council, noting that his woman of 25 times survived a head-on motion. The Department of Transportation is the only federal agency that has a greater impact on Americans ‘ daily lives and loved ones.  ,
As director, Duffy may oversee an organization with an annual budget northern of$ 100 billion, with its arms on everything from highways, railways, and roads to aerospace and water travel. The Goliath$ 1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, a comprehensive catch-all spending plan that has been hampered by difficulties, bureaucratic red tape, escalating fees, and a failure to fulfill strong promises more than three centuries after President Joe Biden signed it into laws, will also be passed by the next minister.  ,
According to a report released in late June, the liberal Cato Institute wrote that” complex demands for donors, Buy America needs, and preferences for salaried employees and those who have been involved with the justice system are some of the reasons for the gradual progress on these initiatives.”  ,
Democrats on the committee favor large union jobs. Aldwin is a staunch supporter of Buy America, priority spending that appears appealing in theory but actually tends to raise taxpayer bills. Trump is a staunch supporter of Buy America, a fundamental tenet of the Make America Great Again movement. It’s the one thing that he and a far-left senator like Baldwin can agree on.  ,
Duffy stated to the committee that he is prepared to “usher in a golden age of travel” by implementing the Trump agenda. The sound of that was definitely liked by committee members with dollar signs in their eyes. Sullivan wants Duffy to tour Alaska and perhaps some of the 251 communities, the senator says, that are not connected by road. Democratic Ranking Member Maria Cantwell of Washington wants Duffy to be aware of the crucial role Boeing’s troubled economy plays. She inquired about Duffy’s support for a multi-billion dollar salmon trade program, which opponents claim is important.  ,
” I love salmon, and I love salmon spawning”, Duffy confessed.  ,
I concur with you.
He answered question after after question, mostly, it seemed, to the satisfaction or acceptance of the committee that will vote on whether to recommend him for full Senate confirmation.  ,
In response to Hawaii Democrat Brian Schatz’s concerns that the nominee will take into account the full scope of transportation, Duffy said,” I agree with you, dying is a bad thing.  ,
” I think we’re all agreed that death is bad”, Cruz added.  ,
Duffy even consented to look into a pending investigation into the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s plan to create more gender-specific crash-test dummies. The nominee and Cantwell found common ground on the idea that “men and women are different,” something that members of the left have struggled with in recent years.
The senators are undoubtedly in agreement that they want sizable sums of money from the government for what they believe are the state’s fundamental transportation infrastructure needs. They assert that they want the most affordable means of accomplishing that crucial political goal.  ,
Members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation seem to believe Duffy is the man for the job.  ,
The Federalist’s senior elections correspondent, Matt Kittle, is. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
