Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee reports two DOE nominations favorably and hears four nominees for Interior and Energy posts

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on May 7 held roll-call votes to report two nominations for Department of Energy posts and then conducted a nominations hearing for four nominees to senior Interior and Energy positions.

During a short business meeting the committee took roll-call votes on the nominations of Mr. Wells Griffith to be Under Secretary of Energy and Dr. Dario Gill to be Under Secretary of Energy for Science. The committee reported Mr. Griffith's nomination favorably by a roll-call tally the clerk recorded as 14 ayes and 6 nays; the clerk later recorded Dr. Gill's nomination as reported favorably with 15 ayes and 5 nays. The clerk captured that roll-call tallies were taken for each floor nomination and the chair ordered both nominations reported favorably to the Senate.

After the votes the committee moved into a scheduled nominations hearing for four nominees: Dr. Andrea Travnik (nominee to be…