Committee sets vote on more Energy, Interior nominees

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a vote Wednesday on more nominees for the Interior and Energy departments.

For the Department of Energy, the panel will vote on Jonathan Brightbill to become general counsel, Tina Pierce for chief financial officer and Conner Prochaska to lead the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.

Lawmakers asked Brighbill and Prochaska about the administration’s spending cuts during their confirmation hearing last week.

Brightbill led the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division in the final weeks of President Donald Trump’s first term. Prochaska was an ARPA-E adviser during the first term.