WASHINGTON – The government may be shut down, but the U.S. Senate Tuesday confirmed a group of President Donald Trump’s nominations for offices in his administration, including three from Louisiana.

Among the 107 nominees confirmed en masse was James S. Baehr, of New Orleans, to be General Counsel at the Department of Veterans Affairs and David A. LaCerte, of Baton Rouge, to be a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees wholesale power markets that utilities use as well as the transmission of electricity and natural gas.

Kurt L. Wall, of Livingston, was also confirmed U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana based in Baton Rouge.

The vote was 51 to 47.

With the confirmation last month of New Orleans lawyer Peter Thomson as the Central Intelligen

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