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Wilson’s SASC Confirmation Hearing Light On Republican Ethics Inquiries

Pat Host

Thursday, March 30th, 2017

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Wilson’s SASC Confirmation Hearing Light On Republican Ethics Inquiries

Heather Wilson, nominee to become the next Air Force secretary. Photo: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

Most Republicans at Heather Wilson’s confirmation hearing to become the next Air Force secretary seemed largely uninterested in probing her alleged ethics missteps, instead saluting her experience and supporting her nomination.Aside from Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) inquires, it was Democrats, led by Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-R.I.), who grilled the former Republican House lawmaker from New Mexico Thursday about contracts she received for nuclear lab consulting. An Energy Department inspector general probe in 2013 that found…

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