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| Deb Haaland will be confirmed despite the Republican white nationalists delaying her. |
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So it appears that two Republicans could save the nomination of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.
The New Mexico Democratic lawmaker is on track to become the first woman and Native American to hold the position but two white nationalists who side with the Republican Party are putting a hold on the confirmation because of their racism and lip service to the corporate polluters.
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| Steve Daines delays the confirmation vote of Deb Haaland because he doesn't like her thoughts on protecting the environment. |
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) and Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) have put the nomination on hold because they don't like the fact that Haaland is not willing to open up federal lands to oil and gas drilling. She is not willing to back the Keystone XL pipeline which was slated to go through tribal sovereignty.
"I will be forcing debate on Rep. Haaland’s nomination to Interior. Her record is clear: she opposes pipelines & fossil fuels, ignores science when it comes to wildlife management & wants to ban trapping on public lands," Daines said in a statement on the action. "Her views will hurt the Montana way of life and kill Montana jobs. We must consider the impact she will have on the West."
Daines' comment about wildlife management is likely a reference to an exchange he had with Haaland over grizzly bears during her confirmation hearing.
Daines asked Haaland why she co-sponsored a bill to provide grizzly bears with federal protections forever when the bears are not only not endangered, but "well above carrying capacity." Carrying capacity is a term in biology that refers to the number of a certain species that a given ecosystem can support. In other words, there are now too many bears in and around Yellowstone National Park, Daines said.
"I imagine at the time I was caring about the bears," Haaland said.
Daines then asked Haaland why she thought grizzly bear management should remain a federal responsibility even after their populations bounced back, to which she responded that she was "not saying that it shouldn't be returned back to the states."
"Well, that's what your legislation you co-sponsored said," Daines replied. "As it would keep it in federal protections forever, in perpetuity."
Lummis also panned Haaland's energy policies in a statement Tuesday.
"According to a University of Wyoming analysis, the Biden ban could cost my state nearly $13 billion in tax revenue, which would devastate Wyoming’s investments in education, healthcare and infrastructure," she said. "Congresswoman Deb Haaland will be a champion of this and even more radical policies, and I am committed to doing anything I can to fight the Biden and Haaland job-killing agenda."
Lummis continued that not only will "Wyoming's energy workers and producers" lose jobs, but others in the state will be harmed by the loss of revenue from commerce and taxes that comes from those jobs.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) have signalled their support for Haaland. The lawmakers were on the fence about Haaland.
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| Cynthia Lummis is a QAnon based senator from Wyoming. She supported Trump's insurrection. |
Manchin, the chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is known for being one of Democrats most supportive of fossil fuel projects. But he said in a statement on his vote to support Haaland that "[w]hile I may not personally agree with some of Representative Deb Haaland’s past statements and policy positions, as Secretary, she will be carrying out President Biden’s agenda. And, as a former Governor, I understand the importance of having one’s own team in place."
Murkowski also said she "struggled" with her vote to support Haaland because her constituents are "concerned about the agendas Representative Haaland will seek to implement on her own and on behalf of the White House." Murkowski specifically said she is worried about Haaland's opposition to "resource development" on public lands and some specific projects in Alaska.
But Murkowski said that Haaland, who would become the first Native American Cabinet secretary if confirmed, will be a strong advocate for the interests of Native Alaskans "despite some very real misgivings" the senator has about the nominee on other policies.
Despite slow going on the confirmation of some of President Biden's nominees in the Senate, most have moved successfully out of committees and toward floor confirmation votes. The Senate is set to take procedural votes on attorney general nominee Judge Merrick Garland and Housing and Urban Development secretary nominee Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH) Tuesday.
The only Biden nominee so far to be stymied in the Senate is Neera Tanden, who was nominated to be the director of the Office of Management and Budget. Manchin and multiple moderate Republicans announced their opposition to Tanden's nomination over her caustic Twitter history.
The same Republicans and Manchin who supported Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Jeff Sessions, Richard Grenell and numerous other white nationalists. The very same party that worries their asses over Mr. Potato Head, Pepe Le Pew, transgender girls playing sports, not wearing facial masks while in a pandemic and often complaining about being called neanderthals despite not being called that.
The Republican Party is the party of white supremacy. There's no such thing as.........I'll talk about Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) in the next posting.
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