Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
Nominations of Robin Hutcheson to be Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Michael Morgan to be Assistant Secretary for Environmental Observation and Prediction at NOAA, and Sean Burton to be a Member of the Board of Directors
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a full committee hearing on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, at 10 a.m. ET to consider the following Presidential nominations:
Nominees:- Robin Hutcheson to be Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (PN1944)
- Dr. Michael C. Morgan to be Assistant Secretary for Environmental Observation and Prediction, Department of Commerce (PN1674)
- Sean Burton to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (PN1535)
Dr. Michael Morgan is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and associate chair of its undergraduate program. He served on the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Board on Women and Minorities and on the AMS Scientific and Technological Activities Commission. Dr. Morgan has served on the World Meteorological Organization World Weather Research Program’s Science Steering Committee and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Physics. Dr. Morgan was an AMS/UCAR Congressional Science Fellow in Senator Ben Cardin’s office working as a senior legislative aid on energy and environment issues. Previously, Dr. Morgan was Division Director for the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences at the National Science Foundation.