05/14/2025 at 10:30AM
Full committee hearing.
Nominees:
- Sean McMaster, to be Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration
- John Busterud, to be Assistant Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste of the Environmental Protection Agency
- Adam Telle, to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works
McMaster served with the professional staff for the House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure from 2011 to 2017, for Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.). McMaster served as deputy chief of staff and deputy assistant secretary for congressional affairs at DOT during the first Trump administration. Since then, McMaster has worked in the private sector for engineering firm HNTB and, most recently, for Boeing Co.
Busterud, a former corporate energy attorney from California, served in Trump’s first administration as the EPA Region 9 administrator. He was Senior Director and Managing Counsel, Environment and Real Estate, Law Department, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). Busterud also served as a board member for the centrist California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance.
Telle has served as Sen. Bill Hagerty’s (R-Tenn.) Chief of Staff over the last four years and will continue to serve Hagerty while his nomination is pending before the Senate. Telle served during the first Trump Administration as the White House’s Senate lead in its Office of Legislative Affairs. Prior to that role, Telle served as the top staff member on the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Homeland Security and as the top policy advisor to the late Senator Thad Cochran.