The U.S. Senate has begun the process to confirm President-elect Donald Trump's picks for top spots in his upcoming administration this week. Committee hearings were supposed to kick off on Tuesday with Secretary of Veterans Affairs nominee Doug Collins,

The Republican-controlled Senate plans to work overtime to approve President Donald Trump’s cabinet, including “nights, weekends, recesses,” according to Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Senate Democrats plan to slow down the process as much as possible – their only choice to disrupt the proceedings because it takes only a majority vote to approve nominees.

As Donald Trump returns to the White House on January 20, Republicans will have a majority in the Senate. This means that his Cabinet nominees will likely face an easier path to confirmation, even for those who may have surrounded themselves with controversies.

Trump's VA pick, former Rep. Doug Collins, said the VA may be trying to fill positions, but many of those vacancies have gone unfilled for weeks or longer.

Veterans affairs secretary nominee Doug Collins pledged to be a fierce defender of the department’s workforce ... on Tuesday after President Donald Trump picked him to lead the agency.

Back in 2016, Democrats were widely appalled by Donald Trump’s Cabinet ... Possible Issues: Bondi is a longtime Trump loyalist who served on his first impeachment defense team and publicly ...

Doug Collins ... Like many of Mr. Trump’s other cabinet selections, including Pete Hegseth, his nominee to oversee the Defense Department, Mr. Collins reflects the new president’s priorities ...

Doug Collins of Georgia is ... As President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Collins underwent a confirmation hearing before the Senate Veterans' Affairs ...

President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Veterans Affairs ... by the president is to take care of our veterans,” Doug Collins told the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee ...

Doug Collins, President Trump ... appointments are through the community care system. Democrats now fear that more veterans seeking medical care outside the VA could pull funding away from ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Doug Collins, Air Force Reserve colonel and former Georgia congressman, as VA secretary signaled a commitment to changing things for the better and prioritizing the millions of veterans who depend on the VA.

A Princeton and Harvard-educated former combat veteran, Hegseth went on to make a career at Fox News, where he hosted a weekend show. Trump tapped him as the defense secretary to lead an organization with nearly 2.1 million service members, about 780,000 civilians and a budget of $850 billion.