GOP Vows To Advance Pruitt Nomination After Democrats Stymie Panel Vote

Top Senate Republicans are promising to advance the nomination of Scott Pruitt as the Trump administration's head of EPA after Democrats stalled the nomination by boycotting the planned Feb. 1 vote on the nomination in the Environment & Public Works (EPW) Committee for allegedly failing to adequately answer their questions. Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), the committee's chairman, pledged at the end of the committee's business meeting to move Pruitt’s nomination “as expeditiously as possible,” though in comments to reporters he...