Senate Confirms Pritzker as Commerce Secretary
The Senate confirmed Penny Pritzker as Secretary of Commerce June 25. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., called Pritzker "a force of nature," in a news release following the vote. "The unanimous bipartisan support she received in the committee,…
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and the decisive 97-1 bipartisan vote today by the full Senate, reflects our confidence that she will be a highly successful driver for growth and change," he said. The only vote in opposition was cast by Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt. Pritzker is the founder and CEO of PSP Capital Partners and a board member of the Hyatt Hotels Corp., which her father, Donald Pritzker, co-founded. Ms. Pritzker was one of President Barack Obama's top fundraising bundlers, is a former member of Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and a former member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Pritzker replaces acting Secretary Rebecca Blank, who took over in 2012 after John Bryson took a medical leave last June following reports that he was involved in car accidents related to a seizure that he suffered.