//President-elect Biden calls transportation nominee Buttigieg 'a new voice'

President-elect Biden calls transportation nominee Buttigieg 'a new voice'

President-elect Joe Biden introduced onetime Democratic primary rival Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday as his nominee for transportation secretary, saying the 38-year-old can be “a new voice” in the fight against economic inequality, institutional racism and climate change.Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, would be the first openly gay person confirmed by the Senate to a Cabinet position. Biden hailed that while saying, by