WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee will hold a Jan. 21 confirmation hearing on the nomination of former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg to head the Transportation Department.
Buttigieg was tapped by President-elect Joe Biden to head the department that oversees aviation, highways, vehicles, pipelines and transit. On Thursday, Biden proposed $20 billion in additional government assistance to help struggling U.S. transit systems that have seen a massive falloff in ridership amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Reporting by David Shepardson, Editing by Franklin Paul)
