
A Democratic committee in the Virginia Senate voted Tuesday against including former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler in the new Republican governor's Cabinet though the move is likely not the final say on the matter.
On a 9-6 party-line vote, the committee stripped Wheeler — Gov. Glenn Youngkin's pick for secretary of natural and historic resources — from a resolution approving the governor's other Cabinet appointees. The panel then advanced the resolution, taking no issue with anyone else.