Michael Griffin is expected to lead off a Senate confirmation hearing this morning; he has to share the hearing with several other non-NASA nominees, and according to reports the committee will spend no more than about an hour with Griffin before moving on to the others. As Florida Today reports, the hearing is part formality—there’s no opposition to the nomination—but is an opportunity for senators to query Griffin on some key issues.
There are a couple options for watching the hearing, if you’re not going to be there in person. The Commerce Committee provides its own live webcast of the hearing. Additionally, the audio of the hearing is available on CapitolHearings.org, a C-SPAN service. (C-SPAN itself will not carry the hearing on TV, instead covering the confirmation hearings of John Negroponte and John Bolton.) NASA TV is not scheduled to show the hearing, but its schedule is always subject to change.
