Senate advances Trump's energy secretary nominee to final confirmation vote

The Senate Thursday evening precocious President Donald Trump's nominee to caput the Department of Energy to a last confirmation vote.

The ballot was 62-35. 

Chris Wright, the CEO and laminitis of Liberty Energy Inc., an vigor manufacture work supplier based successful Colorado, was tapped by the 47th president to caput the  Department of Energy nether his administration.

The Trump nominee has received bipartisan enactment for his nomination, being introduced by a Democrat, Sen. John Hickenlooper of Colorado, during his confirmation hearing with the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this month.

The Senate held a late-night cloture ballot for Wright, to extremity treatment implicit his nomination. 

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Chris Wright, main enforcement serviceman of Liberty Energy Inc. and U.S. vigor caput nominee, speaks during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee confirmation proceeding successful Washington, D.C., connected Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (Al Drago)

The cloture ballot passed with bipartisan support, meaning Wright volition beforehand to a final Senate vote, apt to instrumentality spot connected Friday.

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Wright, during his confirmation hearing, said helium had identified 3 "immediate tasks" wherever helium would absorption his attention: unleashing American energy, starring the satellite successful innovation and exertion breakthroughs and expanding accumulation successful America.