Senate Confirmation Hearings Begin Tomorrow for Trump's Cabinet

Tomorrow, Tuesday, January 10th, the United States Senate will commence with its confirmation hearings for the various Cabinet nominations by President-elect Donald Trump, beginning with his pick for Attorney General, Senator Jeff Sessions from Alabama.  Different Senate committees will be holding the hearings as they pertain to the particular nominee's job role: the Judiciary Committee, of which Sessions had been a member for many years until just now, will conduct his hearing.  The hearings for some of the more notable or controversial nominations will most likely be shown on network or cable TV, and I'm sure that the C-Span channels will carry some of them.  I have a special C-Span website, http://www.capitolhearings.org/, that will broadcast live audio of many of the hearings over the next three days, some of which will be going on at the same time.  I also found, on the VOA website, the schedule for the hearings, at least through Thursday...those Cabinet nominations not mentioned on it have yet to be scheduled...

Here is that hearings schedule, listing the Cabinet position, nominee, Senate committee holding the hearing, and its scheduled time:

Tuesday, January 10:

Attorney General: Jeff Sessions...Judiciary Committee, 9:30 am (Day 1)
Homeland Security Secretary: John Kelly...Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, 3:30 pm

Wednesday January 11:

Secretary of State: Rex Tillerson...Foreign Relations Committee, 9 am (Day 1)
Attorney General: Jeff Sessions...Judiciary Committee, 9:30 am (Day 2)
CIA Director: Mike Pompeo...Select Committee on Intelligence, 10 am
Education Secretary: Betsy DeVos...Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, 10 am
Transportation Secretary: Elaine Chao...Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, 10 am

Thursday January 12:

Secretary of State: Rex Tillerson...Foreign Relations Committee, 9 am (Day 2)
Secretary of Defense: James Mattis...Armed Services Committee, 9:30 am
Commerce Secretary: Wilbur Ross...Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, 10 am
Housing and Urban Development Secretary: Ben Carson...Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, 10 am

If you're like me, you'll not only want to hear some of these nominees answer questions of concern from the senators from both parties, but also get a glimpse into how the Republicans and Democrats are strategizing their respective approaches toward the new administration.  Should be interesting...