A Senate committee voted unanimously Wednesday to send the nomination of former Rep. Xochitl Torres Small for Agriculture deputy secretary to the full Senate.
Torres Small, who is currently undersecretary for rural development, won bipartisan support in a 23-0 roll call vote by the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee off the Senate floor.
Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and ranking member John Boozman, R-Ark., called Torres Small a well-qualified candidate for the No. 2 job at USDA. They didn’t say when the Senate would vote on the nomination.
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