Scott Wong is a senior congressional reporter for NBC News.
WASHINGTON — The Senate Armed Services Committee voted Monday along party lines to send Pete Hegseth’s nomination to be defense secretary to the Senate floor as President Donald Trump tries to move quickly to get critical members of his Cabinet in place. All 14 Republicans on the committee voted in favor of Hegseth, while all 13 Democrats voted against him.
' But the most pointed questions came from Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who zeroed in on the allegation of an assault in a hotel in Monterrey, California. Local police investigated the incident, and prosecutors did not file charges. “So you think you are completely cleared because you committed no crime. That’s your definition of cleared. You had just fathered a child two months before by a woman that was not your wife,” Kaine told Hegseth in a testy exchange.
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