Commerce Sends On Foxx’s Nomination to Full Senate for Confirmation Vote
The Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation voted unanimously Monday to send the nomination of Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx to the full Senate for confirmation as secretary of transportation.
The committee vote clears the way for Foxx to replace Ray LaHood as soon as the full Senate votes. No date has been set in the Senate for a vote.
LaHood, a former Republican congressman from Peoria, Ill., has been in the Obama cabinet as transportation secretary since 2009 but said he wanted to return to private life.
At the same meeting the committee voted unanimously to send the Foxx nomination to the Senate, it did the same with the nomination of Penny Pritzker to be secretary of commerce.
“There has been strong bipartisan support for these nominees, and it was evident again today when they were both voted unanimously out of the Commerce Committee,” Chairman John D. “Jay” Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) said.
“I urge my colleagues to act quickly now to schedule votes on their nominations,” Rockefeller said in a statement after the vote.
