Senate Committee Considers Sonny Perdue To Be Agriculture Secretary [Getty Images]

Sonny Perdue, U.S. secretary of agriculture nominee for President Donald Trump, arrives to a Senate Agriculture Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, March 23, 2017. Perdue, the former governor of Georgia who would succeed Tom Vilsack who left January 13, would oversee about 100,000 employees and about $140 billion across various programs. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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