For US senators, it’s all in the question

Photo by Liz RuskinU.S. senators take a variety of postures as they question cabinet nominees at confirmation hearings. Some interrogate. Some toss softballs. Many grandstand. Alaska’s two senators stuck to a few time-honored tactics as the engaged with nominees.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan used his first round of questions with EPA nominee Scott Pruitt to bolster the nominee. Sullivan took aim at a question a Democrat had just asked, about why Pruitt, as Oklahoma attorney general, h