The Senate voted 74-25 Thursday to confirm John Ratcliffe as head of the Central Intelligence Agency, moving quickly to install another member of President Trump's national security team during his first week in office.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune had called out Democratic Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy for delaying the vote on a “key national security position.”

The final vote to ratify Ratcliffe as new CIA Director was 74-25; 21 Democrats voted along with every present Republican

The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as director of the CIA, the second of President Trump’s nominees to earn the chamber’s approval.

Ratcliffe, the former director of national intelligence in the final months of Trump’s first term, drew controversy over perceived politicization of intelligence assessments.

S.D., was frustrated with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., after he blocked a confirmation vote for John Ratcliffe as CIA director.

The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, giving President Donald Trump the second member of his new Cabinet.

Ratcliffe, Trump’s former Director of National Intelligence, sought to reassure senators that he would remain apolitical in his role as CIA director.

The Senate today confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead America’s premier spy agency and his second nominee to win Senate approval. Ratcliffe was director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term and is the first person to have held that position and the top post at

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate confirmed former Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe to serve as the next director of the CIA on Thursday.

John Ratcliffe became the second member of President Donald Trump's new Cabinet on Thursday when he was confirmed by the Senate as director of the CIA. Ratcliffe, who served as director of national intelligence during Trump's first term, is the first ...