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Senators Set to Advance Sonny Perdue Nomination
USAgNet - 03/29/2017
Former Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to move one step closer to becoming the 31st secretary of agriculture on Wednesday. That's when the Senate Agriculture Committee is scheduled to vote on whether to advance the Republican's nomination to the Senate
floor.
The meeting is a key moment for Perdue more than two months after President Donald Trump first tapped him for the Cabinet-level post. If his friendly confirmation hearing last week is any indication, Perdue will likely notch bipartisan, if not unanimous, support.
It's unclear whether the full Senate will then move to confirm Perdue before it leaves for its two-week April recess at the end of next week.
If senators don't get to Perdue before they leave, he won't be able to get sworn in until the last week of April at the earliest.
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