By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
CHARLESTON — State Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Mike Stuart was before a different committee Thursday as he prepares for a confirmation as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s top attorney.
Stuart, R-Kanawha, was one of several federal nominees before members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Thursday morning. The committee will meet in the near future to vote to forward Stuart’s nomination to the full U.S. Senate.
“My nomination and the opportunity to be here today as a nominee is a testament to the opportunity of America,” Stuart said. “If you were to have told me as a young boy that one day I would be sitting here testifying before members of the United States Senate in consideration of a position in a president’s administration, I would have told you impossible. Nothing, however, is impossible in America.”
Stuart was nominated in February by President Donald Trump to be the general counsel for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), serving Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
