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Brooke Rollins Testifies at Her Senate Agriculture Confirmation Hearing, Jan. 23, 2025

January 23, 2025 · Forbes Breaking News · 3:42:23

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What happened

The Senate Agriculture Committee held a confirmation hearing for Brooke Rollins, nominee for Secretary of Agriculture, on January 23, 2025, carried in full by Forbes Breaking News. The hearing is the committee’s examination of the nominee who would lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Senate confirmed Rollins on February 13, 2025, by a vote of 72–28, as this site’s chronicle records.

Why it matters

This hearing is the founding document of Rollins’s tenure: the priorities and commitments she stated to the committee that oversees USDA are the baseline her record as Secretary is measured against on this site.

Scoreboard watch

This is a candidate item for the weekly scoreboard: the commitments Rollins stated at her January 23, 2025 confirmation hearing, each as stated at the hearing, to be checked against her conduct in office.

Sources: Senate Agriculture Committee, confirmation hearing on the nomination of Brooke Rollins to be Secretary of Agriculture, January 23, 2025 (full hearing as carried by Forbes Breaking News, embedded above; PBS NewsHour, Right Side Broadcasting Network, and Fox News carries of the same hearing are recorded as alternate sources in the site index).