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U.S. Senate Confirms Ernest Moniz as Energy Secretary (The Hill)

The new U.S. Energy Secretary,
Ernest Moniz (Courtesy MIT) 

The Senate on Thursday voted 97-0 to approve President Obama’s nominee to head the U.S. Department of Energy.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and ranking member Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) hailed the fact that Ernest Moniz had broad bipartisan support.

“I think it is good when we are able to stand as the chairman and ranking member and really come to terms of agreement and support for an individual,” Murkowski said ahead of the confirmation vote.

Moniz, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist who served as undersecretary of Energy in the Clinton administration, replaces former Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

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