Senate considers Neil Jacobs
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Trump’s NOAA pick pledges full weather service staffing
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Former NOAA chief Neil Jacobs told lawmakers Wednesday he would “probably do some things differently” in response to questions over the 2019 “Sharpiegate” scandal, pledging at his confirmation hearing not to sign off again on an inaccurate hurricane forecast under political pressure.
Last week’s devastating Hill Country flooding is likely to feature heavily in a Wednesday hearing on President Donald Trump’s nomination of Neil Jacobs