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Jeffrey Hall to Be Assistant Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency · Congress.wiki

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Jeffrey Hall to Be Assistant Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency

PN141-20

Jeffrey Hall, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, vice David M. Uhlmann, resigned.

1Nominees

13Actions

0Hearings

1Committees

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Committees

Committee on Environment and Public WorksSenate

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Cloture Motion Agreed to (53-47)

53

Yea

47

Nay

0

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Voted on December 17, 2025

Timeline

Received9 months ago (May 6, 2025)

Authority2 months ago (December 19, 2025)

Last ActionDecember 18, 2025

Action History

FloorDecember 18, 2025

Confirmed by the Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 53 - 43. Record Vote Number: 655.

FloorDecember 18, 2025

Considered by Senate.

FloorDecember 17, 2025

By unanimous consent agreement, debate 12/18/2025.

FloorDecember 17, 2025

Considered by Senate.

FloorDecember 17, 2025

Cloture invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 53 - 47. Record Vote Number: 653.

Nominees

Related Nominations

This nomination is part of a batch. PN141-20 has 39 parts total.

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Committee Meetings

4 meetings related to this nomination

Business meeting to consider S.2082, to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to modify the definition of "production facility" to exclude an equipment or device capable of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel in a manner that does not separate plutonium from other transuranic elements, S.2235, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to reauthorize the diesel emissions reduction program, S.2741, to establish within the Environmental Protection Agency the Office of Mountains, Deserts, and Plains, S.3022, to amend the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act to reauthorize certain Environmental Protection Agency programs, S.2110, to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to prepare a report on reuse and refill systems, S.2878, to reauthorize funding to monitor, assess, and research the Great Lakes Basin, S.287, to designate the Federal building located at 225 South Pierre Street in Pierre, South Dakota, as the "Marcella LeBeau Federal Building," and for other purposes, S.2319, to designate the Federal building located at 300 West Congress Street in Tucson, Arizona, as the "Raul M. Grijalva Federal Building", and the nominations of Jeffrey Hall, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator, and Douglas Troutman, of Maryland, to be Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances, both of the Environmental Protection Agency, Ho Nieh, of Alabama, to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mitch Graves, and Jeff Hagood, both of Tennessee, Randall Jones, of Alabama, and Arthur Graham, of Florida, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and 3 General Services Administration resolutions.

Committee on Environment and Public WorksDirksen Senate Office Building, 562Oct 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM

Business meeting to consider the nomination of Jeffrey Hall, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; to be immediately followed by oversight hearings to examine the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Committee on Environment and Public WorksDirksen Senate Office Building, 562Sep 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM

Business meeting to consider the nominations of Jeffrey Hall, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Katherine Scarlett, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Council on Environmental Quality, and 10 GSA resolutions; to be immediately followed by an oversight hearing to examine the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Committee on Environment and Public WorksDirksen Senate Office Building, 562

Hearings to examine the nominations of Katherine Scarlett, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Council on Environmental Quality, and Jeffrey Hall, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator, both of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Committee on Environment and Public WorksDirksen Senate Office Building, 562Jul 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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Sep 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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Active Holds (1)

Alejandro Padilla(D)

Nomination

On hold for 8 months

since Jun 3, 2025

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Jeffrey Hall

Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency · Environmental Protection Agency

Virginia