WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, appeared on a smooth path to quick confirmation, pledging to senators on Thursday to help carry out the administration’s ambitious agenda to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure.Speaking at his confirmation hearing with his husband sitting nearby, Buttigieg pointed to a "generational opportunity" to create new jobs, fight economic inequality and stem climate change.
He pledged more conversations with Congress on programs that will require significant investments in the months to come."We need to build our economy back, better than ever, and the Department of Transportation can play a central role in this," the 39-year-old former mayor of South.