Senate confirms Colleen Shogan as permanent head of National Archives
The U.S. Senate has confirmed historian and political scientist Colleen Shogan to head the National Archives and Records Administration, a position that has been open for a year as the agency faces increasing and partisan scrutiny.
The National Archives, responsible for safeguarding government records, has been at the center of efforts to recover records from former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence.
Shogan most recently worked for the nonprofit White House Historical Association under Trump and Biden and formerly worked for the Library of Congress. She will be the first woman to hold the job.
Her rocky path to confirmation started with a heated hearing in September, just days after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, Trump's estate in Palm Beach, Florida, for documents that belonged to the National Archives.
Biden renominated her just before his own possession of classified documents became public.
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What's the holdup? Veterans wait months for records from National Archives needed for benefits.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: National Archives gets permanent leader after a yearlong process
