09/17/2025 at 10:15AM
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a nominations hearing for nominees of the National Transportation Safety Board, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Department of Commerce at 10:00 AM EST on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. The hearing will immediately follow an executive session to reconsider the nomination of Dr. Neil Jacobs, of North Carolina, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere (NOAA Administrator). Jacobs was previously reported to the full Senate on a bipartisan basis by voice vote. However, possible changes in Senate floor procedure around nominations necessitates a roll call vote.
Nominees:
- Michael Graham, of Virginia, to be a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board
- Ethan Klein, of New Jersey, to be an Associate Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Joyce Meyer, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs to oversee the Census Bureau
Mike Graham is a current member of the NTSB, appointed in Trump’s first term.
Klein served as a technology policy adviser for OSTP for most of Trump’s first term. “After 2021, he served as a nuclear nonproliferation and international safeguards fellow with funding from the National Nuclear Security Administration and completed a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in nuclear science and engineering.” Klein is also nominated to be U.S. Chief Technology Officer.
Meyer served as the White House’s deputy director of legislative affairs during Trump’s first term, and was a long-time staffer of the former Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.). She would oversee the U.S. Census Bureau.