The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is moving quickly to get President-elect Obama‘s energy and environmental nominees confirmed by the Senate. It has scheduled the confirmation hearing for Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu, who has been tapped to be secretary of energy, for Jan. 13, and the confirmation hearing for Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO), Obama’s choice for Interior Department secretary, for Jan. 15.

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