Second Week of Trump Cabinet Nominee Hearings in US Senate

President-elect Donald Trump's picks for his Cabinet continue their confirmation hearings in the United States Senate this week, with the Senate committee appropriate to the Cabinet post conducting each hearing.  Here is the schedule, courtesy of the website http://www.capitolhearings.org/ ...from which you can listen to the live audio for many of the hearings:

Tuesday 1/17

Secretary of the Interior: Ryan Zinke...Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 10 am
Secretary of Education: Betsy DeVos...Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, 5 pm

Wednesday 1/18 (all hearings at 10 am)

Secretary of Commerce; Wilbur Ross, Jr...Committee on Commerce, Science, and Technology
EPA Administrator: Scott Pruitt...Committee on Environment and Public Works
United Nations Ambassador: Nikki Haley...Committee on Foreign Relations
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Tom Price...Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Thursday 1/19

Secretary of Energy: Rick Perry...Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 10 am

Regarding last week's hearings, I listened to a lot of Jeff Sessions' hearing for Attorney General and a good amount of those for Rex Tillerson, James Mattis, and Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and CIA Director, respectively...and a little of Ben Carson's hearing for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.  Except for Tillerson, who has shown a marked lack of loyalty to the United States pertaining to his business relationship with Russian president dictator Vladimir Putin and displayed an attitude of elitist condescension toward the Senators questioning him, I was impressed and encouraged with the nominees. Of course, if ultimately confirmed and installed in their respective posts, they'll still have to answer to Donald Trump, who up until now has showed no signs whatsoever that he is emotionally more mature than a spoiled, vindictive little six-year-old brat whenever he encounters any opposition or criticism.  I want for Trump to be a good and successful president, but he isn't providing me any sense of confidence to support that hope, in spite of some of the people he has nominated to his Cabinet...