Perdue's Confirmation Hearing Slated for March 23
Former Gov. Sonny Perdue's Senate confirmation hearing will come nine weeks
after President Donald Trump first tapped the Republican to lead the Department
of Agriculture.
The Senate Agriculture Committee will consider Perdue's nomination on March 23,
the committee announced Thursday evening.
The hearing is not expected to be a particularly contentious one. The Ag
committee is fairly bipartisan and many Democrats have already said nice things
about Perdue, although more stories have emerged in the national press about
some of his run-ins with the state’s ethics commission when he was governor.
The hearing will come at the same time as another prominent confirmation fight
on Capitol Hill: Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is also being vetted by the
Senate that week. That will likely shift much of the spotlight off of Perdue.