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- On Thursday, the U.S. Senate approved MIT physics professor Ernest Moniz's nomination for Secretary of the Energy Department.
- The vote was 97-0 in Moniz's favor.
The Senate has just confirmed the nomination of MIT physics professor Ernest Moniz for Energy secretary in a 97-0 vote.
— POLITICO (@politico) May 16, 2013
From the article:
With a vote 97 to 0 in favor, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor will take the helm of the department poised to issue a series of decisions on the future of U.S. natural gas exports and to guide the country's energy investments. ...