Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee
S-216 Capitol
02/03/2025 at 05:45PM
Full committee business meeting.
Nominee:
- Brooke Rollins, to be Secretary of Agriculture
The nomination of Brooke Rollins was reported favorably by a unanimous vote of all members of the committee, 23-0
The former CEO and president of the extremist Texas Public Policy Foundation and the CEO of the America First Policy Institute, Rollins is a climate denier. She claimed, at a climate-denial conference held by Heartland Institute in 2018, that “We know the research of CO2 being a pollutant is just not valid.”
At her nomination hearing, Rollins defiantly supported the mass deportation of undocumented farmworkers.
Democrats voting in the affirmative:
- Amy Klobuchar, Ranking Member
- Michael Bennet
- Tina Smith
- Dick Durbin
- Cory Booker
- Ben Ray Luján
- Raphael Warnock
- Peter Welch
- John Fetterman
- Elissa Slotkin