WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted largely along party lines Wednesday to confirm former Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin’s ...

Sheldon Whitehouse, Senate Environment and Public ... leading Markey to suggest present-day Lee Zeldin doesn’t agree with 2016 Lee Zeldin. Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., brought up constituents ...

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), the committee’s ranking ... "Sadly, all signs point to no." WASHINGTON — Former Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin moved a step closer to confirmation as the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead ... Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island called Zeldin the wrong man for the job.

Several Democrats voted in favor of Zeldin, a former lawmaker from New York who will oversee an agency tasked with protecting ...

Lee Zeldin, President Donald Trump’s nominee ... He did not explain why. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), the committee’s ranking member, had urged his colleagues to vote against Zeldin.

MORE: Lee Zeldin tapped to lead Environmental Protection Agency ... energy and clean energy' Democrats on the hearing committee, including ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., expressed concern ...

Whitehouse did not press for a better answer on the threshold, but did ask Zeldin if he could name any key climate “tipping points.” The EPA appointee was unable to offer up a single one. 5.