Senate Delays Confirmation Vote For Air Chief Goffman Until January

The Senate’s decision to adjourn its annual session Dec. 20 will delay until next year a pending vote on the nomination of Joe Goffman to formally lead EPA’s air office, after senators were unable to agree on a broad year-end package of federal nominations. The adjournment comes after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) earlier this week teed up a procedural vote on Goffman’s long-pending nomination, filing cloture on multiple nominees Dec. 18 . That development raised the possibility that...