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Feb 2, 2021 · Updated at 3:33 p.m. ET. Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg made history Tuesday, becoming the first openly gay man to win Senate confirmation to run a Cabinet department. Buttigieg was ...
Feb 2, 2021 · Pete Buttigieg won Senate approval on Tuesday as transportation secretary, the first out gay person to be confirmed to a cabinet post. He will be tasked with advancing Joe Biden’s ambitious ...
Dec 15, 2020 · WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. will nominate Pete Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation, Mr. Biden’s transition team announced Tuesday, selecting a former mayor of ...
Jul 28, 2021 · Transcript. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on the bipartisan infrastructure deal reached by Senate negotiators. AILSA CHANG, HOST: We're going to go to ...
Dec 31, 2022 · F rom Pete Buttigieg’s old office in South Bend, Indiana, you could see the hospital where he was born, churches built for Irish and Polish immigrants and a factory that made cabinets for Singer ...
Feb 2, 2021 · Buttigieg was confirmed in a final 86 to 13 vote in the Senate, after the 39-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and Mr. Biden's one-time rival in the Democratic presidential primaries ...
Mar 19, 2020 · Where did Pete Buttigieg come from? Until launching his presidential campaign in January 2019, Mr. Buttigieg was a relatively obscure mayor of an Indiana city of just over 100,000 people.
