U.S. Senate Has Confirmed Former Sen. Dan Coats As Director Of National Intelligence

Roll Call: Former Senator Dan Coats Easily Confirmed as Intelligence Director

Former Sen. Dan Coats can formally say goodbye to his brief retirement.

His former Senate colleagues confirmed the Hoosier, 85-12, to be President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence Wednesday afternoon, in one of their last actions before a long St. Patrick’s Day weekend.

Senators voted to limit debate on the Coats nomination earlier Wednesday, 88-11.
Coats said during his confirmation hearing at the Senate Intelligence Committee that moving back to the executive branch was not his plan when he announced his intent to retire from the Senate.

“It has been a long road of public service that has brought me here before you. After 34 years of service in the House, Senate, and as U.S. Ambassador to Germany, I was ready to make a transition and planned to move on to a new chapter of my lifelong journey back home again in Indiana,” Coats said. “But as I have learned over those 34 years, life doesn’t always work out that way.”

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