There were sports analogies galore but few policy specifics during Scott Turner's confirmation hearing on Thursday to become housing secretary.

Scott Turner, a former NFL player who served in the first Trump administration, fielded questions from lawmakers as the potential next Housing and Urban Development secretary.

Senators pressed Department of Housing and Urban Development nominee Eric Scott Turner on how he would tackle housing affordability and homelessness during a Thursday confirmation hearing.

Scott Turner, an official during the first Trump administration, said that the country was not building enough homes and that the housing department was “failing at its most basic mission.”

Senate hearings are scheduled this coming week for several of Trump’s picks for the Cabinet. Many have met with senators individually. Now, they will go before the committees overseeing the agencies that Trump wants them to run. Here’s a look at the schedule for Senate hearings set so far, in Eastern time:

A developer from Walpole is considering a U.S. Senate bid to bring his affordable housing expertise to Washington.

The Senate will continue confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees on Thursday, featuring several high-profile candidates.

Committees will hear from nominees hoping to lead the Treasury, Interior Housing and Urban Development departments and the Environmental Protection Agency.

President-elect Donald Trump's picks for the Treasury, Housing and Urban Development and Interior departments, along with the Environmental Protection Agency, went before lawmakers on Thursday. Among them included former presidential candidate Doug Burgum and billionaire Trump donor Scott Bessent.

Selections for attorney general, secretary of homeland security, secretary of state and Treasury secretary are among those set to have hearings this week.

Five Trump nominees are slated to face committees Thursday, including a second hearing for Trump's pick to run the Justice Department, Pam Bondi.