The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a confirmation hearing at 10 a.m. next Wednesday for Doug Burgum to be interior secretary.  

Burgum, the former governor of North Dakota and presidential candidate, has received a warm response from Senate Republicans, especially over his push to increase U.S. energy production.

As interior secretary, Burgum would play a key role in pushing Trump’s agenda to increase oil, gas and coal production on public lands and have broad authority over oil and gas drilling leases.  

Burgum’s hearing, originally scheduled for Tuesday, was postponed this week over delayed paperwork. Heinrich, along with other Democrats on the committee, urged Chairman Mike Lee, R-Utah, to postpone the hearing until the standard documents were made available for review.