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The Senate on Tuesday confirmed former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) to be the next Transportation secretary, putting him in place to lead a sprawling agency that oversees air travel, highways, pipelines and railroads.
President Trump’s Cabinet nominee received bipartisan backing and was confirmed Tuesday with a 77-22 vote.
Duffy was expected to easily clear the voting threshold. He was unanimously advanced out of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee with a 28-0 vote last week, and in a unanimous procedural vote on the Senate floor Monday evening.
The former five-term congressman will take over an agency that has over 55,000 employees and a budget of more than $100 billion.
