President Donald Trump’s pick to be EPA’s top attorney appears poised to advance toward Senate confirmation despite Democratic concerns about his qualifications.
Environment and Public Works Chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said she’ll vote for Sean Donahue to be general counsel, and expects other Republicans to do so as well.
Donahue faced a line of questions at his confirmation hearing last week from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.), the committee’s top Democrat, aimed at showing a lack of legal qualifications, while other Democrats pushed him on issues like the Trump administration’s freezing of grant funding.
“I’m going to support him,” Capito told POLITICO’s E&E News. “I think he got some tough questioning. So I expect it will probably be a party-line vote, but I don’t want to call the vote too early.”
