Senate HELP Executive Session Set on OSHA Nominee

The U.S. Senate Health, Labor, Education & Pensions Committee has scheduled a Dec. 13 executive session to consider the nomination of Scott Mugno to be assistant secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, the head of OSHA, and five other nominees.

  • Dec 13, 2017

The U.S. Senate Health, Labor, Education & Pensions (HELP) Committee has scheduled a Dec. 13 executive session to consider the nomination of Scott Mugno to be assistant secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, the head of OSHA, and five other nominees. But a webcast of the hearing will not be offered, and there is not a scheduled start time shown on the committee's hearing announcement.

The executive session is also to consider these nominees:

  • Johnny Collett to be assistant secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education
  • Kate O'Scannlain to be solicitor of the U.S. Department of Labor
  • Preston Rutledge to be assistant secretary of Labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration
  • William Beach, Ph.D., to be commissioner of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor
  • Brigadier General Mitchell Zais, USA (Ret.) to be deputy secretary, Department of Education
  • James Blew to be assistant secretary for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, Department of Education

The announcement said additional nominations cleared for action could also be considered.

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