"The Senate has unanimously confirmed President Obama's nominee to lead the Energy Department."

"Physicist Ernest Moniz is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Moniz replaces Steven Chu, who served as energy secretary in Obama's first term.

Moniz was an energy undersecretary in the Clinton administration.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina had delayed a vote on Moniz for several weeks. Graham was protesting Obama's plan to cut about $200 million from a South Carolina project to turn weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear reactors."

The Associated Press had the story May 16, 2013. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"Ernest Moniz Confirmed Unanimously as Energy Secretary" (Christian Science Monitor) [3]

"Graham Says Concerns That Spurred Moniz Hold Unresolved; Threatens To Block Other Nominees" (E&E News PM) [4]