This week’s Senate’s confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s first wave of Cabinet-level nominees got off to an ...

Mike Rounds ... support him,” Rounds added. Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be Defense secretary, appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his confirmation ...

Mike Rounds ... United States, not to simply fall in line and do something expedient,” Reed added. If Hegseth’s nomination is passed by the committee, he needs a simple majority in the Senate ...

“Mr. Hegseth had three audiences: the committee, the United States Senate and the American general ... done a good job in many cases,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the committee ...

Democrats grilled Trump’s defense secretary pick over ugly allegations against him. But barring a last-minute surprise, he appears on track to be confirmed.

"It is a great honor to represent our state in the United States Senate and I will ... He's been assigned to sit on the Senate Committee on Armed Services; the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing ...

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Hegseth is likely to have near-unanimous Republican support on the committee and potentially in the full Senate ... Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds, a Republican member of the Armed Services panel ...