WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a key role to help President Donald Trump fulfill his pledge to roll back major environmental regulations, including those aimed at slowing climate change and encouraging use of electric vehicles.

The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm Lee Zeldin as the nation’s 17th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The former New York congressman has little experience in environmental policy. He is expected to follow orders to weaken climate rules.

Mallory McMorrow, a state senator who won national Democratic acclaim in 2022 with a speech defending liberal values while identifying herself as a “straight, white, Christian, married suburban mom,” said she had not ruled out a run for either governor or the Senate.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will spend two days answering questions and parrying attacks from U.S. lawmakers. The first hearing, Wednesday at 10 a.m., will be at the [Senate Finance Committee](

Former Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg presided over countless setbacks and catastrophic initiatives.

Michigan Democrat Gary Peters won’t be the only senator to retire this cycle, at least according to almost a century of history.

Republicans still have large legislative majorities in Iowa, but a Democrat’s apparent win in a solidly conservative area buoyed that party at a moment of uncertainty.

In his first confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, insists he is "not anti-vaccine" but asks “uncomfortable questions.