Unlike other recent Senate confirmation hearings for President Trump’s Cabinet picks that got testy, the one Tuesday for the nominee to lead the department of Veterans Affairs — a department that is second in size only to the Pentagon — went off without a single voice raised.
At his confirmation hearing on Tuesday, former Georgia Republican Congressman Doug Collins vowed to put his military service front and center should he lead Veterans Affairs.
Collins, who is also a colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserves, held up his dog tags as he delivered his opening remarks and called them “a reminder, just like every other veteran who served, that we’re part of a bigger unit.”
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