Senate confirms Trump pick to lead independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Resignation of a top US nuclear regulator seen as an attack on agency independence

This story originally appeared on the author’s substack newsletter, Field Notes From Alexander C. Kaufman, to which you can subscribe here. A top official at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is resigning from her post amid the Trump administration’s attempts to overhaul atomic energy rules and chip away at the agency’s independence. Commissioner Annie Caputo, a Republican whom President Donald Trump initially nominated to the five-member …

Senate confirms Trump pick to lead independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission

The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Nuclear Regulatory Commission despite concerns of partisanship infiltrating the independent agency.

Senate confirms Trump pick to lead independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Your Capital Minds

The Senate confirmed its first nominee of the week ahead of what is expected to be a jam-packed schedule to ram through as many of President Donald Trump’s picks as possible. David A. Wright, Trump’s pick to lead the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a five-year term, was confirmed in the upper chamber on a 50to 39 vote on Monday. It’s not Wright’s first time as chair of the commission, having first served in the role beginning in 2020. Tr…

Senate confirms Trump pick Wright to lead Nuclear Regulatory Commissio

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Senate confirmed its first nominee of the week ahead of what is expected to be a jam-packed schedule to ram through as many of President Donald Trump’s picks as possible. David A. Wright, Trump’s pick to lead the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a five-year term, was confirmed in the upper chamber on a 50 to 39 vote on Monday. It’s not Wright’s first time as chair of the commission, having f…

Senate confirms Trump pick to lead independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Democratic Accent

The Senate confirmed its first nominee of the week ahead of what is expected to be a jam-packed schedule to ram through as many of President Donald Trump’s picks as possible. David A. Wright, Trump’s pick to lead the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a five-year term, was confirmed in the upper chamber on a 50 to 39 vote on Monday. It’s not Wright’s first time as chair of the commission, having first served in the role beginning in 2020. K…

Final Senate David Wright NRC vote after deadline - ExchangeMonitor

(Page 1) The full Senate voted Monday evening to limit debate on the renomination of David Wright to serve a new five-year term with the Nuclear Regulatory