The United States Senate appears headed toward a Monday July 28 confirmation vote on David Wright’s reappointment as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Next Monday at 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time, the Senate will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on Wright to be a NRC commissioner for a five-year term that would expire on June 30, 2030. The Senate then could vote on Wright’s confirmation by 8 p.m.
Wright previously made it through the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in a slim 10 – 9 vote on July 9.
President Donald Trump re-nominated Wright to the NRC on June 16, only days after firing then commissioner and former NRC chair Christopher Hanson. Wright was originally appointed by Trump in 2018.