Senate confirms Haaland to lead Interior

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Senate confirms Haaland to lead Interior
By Rachel Frazin - 03/15/21 06:20 PM EDT

The Senate on Monday voted to confirm Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) to lead the Interior Department, making her the nation’s first Native American Cabinet secretary.

The Senate voted 51-40 to confirm Haaland. Nine members missed the vote.

Haaland’s opposition to a controversial method of fossil fuel extraction called fracking, participation in a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline and support for the Green New Deal have made her a favorite among progressives, but drawn ire from some Republicans.


GOP Sens. Steve Daines (Mont.) and Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.) had placed holds on her nomination, with Daines invoking Haaland's positions on pipelines and fossil fuels and Lummis invoking President Biden's pause on new leasing for oil and gas development on federal lands.

During her confirmation hearing, Daines specifically pressed Haaland on her stances on fracking and pipelines in general, and particularly Biden's decision to revoke a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, as well as his leasing suspension.

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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/543227-senate-confirms-haaland-to-lead-interior

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What used tampons these two broads are:

Murkowski and Collins have noted that they don’t agree with her on every issue, but have brought up matters like her support for bipartisan conservation legislation and the historic significance of her confirmation.

Being the "first" whatsis to hold an office is not a reason to support the nominee, nor is the nominees support for "republicans get to surrender again", or, as the Rodents call is "bipartisanship" sufficient reason.

The nominee should be able to cite the Constitution and how he will support it and what constitutes a violation of it it.

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Schumer: Haaland Will ‘Stop the Rape of our Great Federal Lands by the Oil Companies’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/03/15/schumer-haaland-will-stop-the-rape-of-our-great-federal-lands-by-the-oil-companies/

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Secretary of Omission? New Interior chief left tribal casino work off Senate questionnaire

Haaland’s work for tribal casino, development board had been listed in prior government documents but excluded from work history given Senate.

By John Solomon

Congresswoman Deb Haaland, President Biden’s newly confirmed Interior secretary, omitted from her Senate vetting questionnaire two tribal casino-related jobs that she held in the last decade and previously disclosed on other government forms, Just the News has learned.

Haaland, a member of the Pueblo Laguna in New Mexico, did not report on her Senate questionnaire that she served as a paid board member of the Laguna Development Corp., her tribe’s gaming and development arm, from 2010 to 2015 or received pay working for another Pueblo’s band's casino in 2016-17.

Just the News discovered the omissions by reviewing earlier government disclosure forms that Haaland filed with the state of New Mexico when she ran unsuccessfully in 2014 for lieutenant governor and with the U.S. House clerk when she filed to run for Congress in 2017.

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https://justthenews.com/government/congress/newly-confirmed-interior-secretary-omitted-tribal-casino-work-senate