{"id":2390229,"date":"2025-01-14T14:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T19:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-justice-sworn-into-senate-succeeding-west-virginias-joe-manchin\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T14:41:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T19:41:44","slug":"jim-justice-sworn-into-senate-succeeding-west-virginias-joe-manchin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-justice-sworn-into-senate-succeeding-west-virginias-joe-manchin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Justice sworn into Senate, succeeding West Virginia&#8217;s Joe Manchin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjim-justice-sworn-into-senate-succeeding-west-virginias-joe-manchin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2390229&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">provided text appears<\/a> to contain HTML and \u200dXML code snippets related to a website&#8217;s\u200c interface\u200c components, including buttons for reading more \u200bcontent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/evan-gershkovich-receives-16-year-sentence-in-russian-prison-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Evan Gershkovich receives 16-year sentence in Russian prison - Washington Examiner\">mobile menu icons<\/a>, and a search functionality.The key components are \u200cinteractive elements such \u200bas a &#8220;Read more&#8221; button that enables users to access additional \u2062details and search features for navigating the website. 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Patrick Morrisey (R-WV).<\/p>\n<p>Had Justice resigned early, West Virginia would have had four governors in 10 days, with two state Senate presidents serving in the role in an acting capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Justice is one of four Republicans who flipped Democratic seats in the 2024 elections, solidifying GOP control of the Senate. His predecessor, Joe Manchin, was the last Democrat to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pollak-voters-reject-democrats-desperate-racism-claims-in-virginia\/\" title=\"Pollak: Voters Reject Democrats&#039; Desperate Racism Claims in Virginia\">hold statewide office<\/a> in West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Justice joins the Senate as Republicans prepare to usher Trump&rsquo;s Cabinet nominees across the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>He will evaluate Chris Wright, nominated for energy secretary, on Wednesday as a member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. One day later, Justice will attend the confirmation hearing for Doug Burgum, Trump&rsquo;s interior secretary nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Justice is not the only senator to join the Senate late. Republicans will have their entire majority in place once Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3283158\/dewine-husted-front-runner-vance-senate-seat\/\">chooses a successor<\/a> to Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, who will be inaugurated next Monday.<\/p>\n<p>There will be yet another opening if Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is confirmed as Trump&rsquo;s secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Justice, a West Virginia coal baron, plans to focus on domestic energy production in his first term, describing the United States as the Saudia Arabia of natural gas in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3258230\/jim-justice-eyes-energy-key-looming-gop-budget-battles\/\">recent interview<\/a> with the<em> Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Justice also holds seats on the Senate&rsquo;s agriculture, small business, and aging panels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1934903\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1934903\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Justice sworn into Senate after two terms as governor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2651,"featured_media":2390230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/jim-justice-senate-1024x591.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[37113,32696,5894,3740,47453],"class_list":["post-2390229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-jim-justice","tag-joe-manchin","tag-politics","tag-senate","tag-west-virginia"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/jim-justice-senate-1024x591.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390233,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390229\/revisions\/2390233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}