Mulvaney, Puzder confirmation hearings set

Two more of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks have landed on the Senate’s confirmation-hearing calendar. 

Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), who has been chosen to head the to Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and Andrew Puzder, Trump’s pick for secretary of Labor, will each head to Capitol Hill in the next two weeks.

Mulvaney will appear before the Senate Budget Committee on the morning of Jan. 24 and then head over to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in the afternoon.

{mosads}First elected in 2010, Mulvaney is a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus and known as a fiscal hawk. 

The OMB produces the White House’s annual budget blueprint and provides guidance on fiscal issues.

Puzder’s hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee was pushed to Feb. 2 from Tuesday.

Panel Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) called Puzder a “respected Tennessee business leader who understands how excessive regulation can destroy jobs and make it harder for family incomes to rise.”

The 66-year-old who hails from Franklin, Tenn., is the CEO of CKE Restaurants, which owns fast-food outlets Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s.