CO2: 416.75 ppmSen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) cast a surprise vote in favor of Rep. Deb Haaland as interior secretary, becoming the only Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to support her.
Senator Joe Manchin III, who oversees the confirmation hearing, said he would support Representative Deb Haaland, President Biden’s nominee to lead the Interior Department.
Senate Republicans are really going all in on the idea that Joe Biden's pick to lead the Interior Department is a "radical."
The leaders of the Senate Energy Committee, both from oil-producing states, are expected to grill Deb Haaland on her opposition to new drilling leases on federal land.
President Joe Biden's Interior Secretary nominee Deb Haaland is expected to face a contentious confirmation hearing Tuesday in front of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Interior Department faced sharp questions from Republicans Tuesday over what several called her “radical” ideas that include opposition...
The Senate energy committee voted along near party lines to advance President Joe Biden’s Interior secretary nominee, over the objections of Republicans who said Deb Haaland’s past opposition to fossil fuels made her unfit to serve as the chief U.S. manager of hundreds of millions of acres of federal land.
Senators posed misleading questions as they cited findings of a widely criticized research report
As Deb Haaland, President Biden's choice for Interior secretary, heads toward a showdown vote, the department she would head is moving ahead on environmental policies.
"Republicans, by the way, are guided by science," Sen. Bill Cassidy told the Native American congresswoman, despite his past vote rejecting climate science.
Republicans prostrated themselves at the altar of fossil fuels in a deeply sad way — and perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. For many, the industry is far and away their largest donor
President Joe Biden nominated the most diverse Cabinet in history, but the Senate, which gets to offer "advice and consent," is suddenly full of members -- mostly Republicans -- who are critical of partisan tweets and are carefully scrutinizing nominees' job qualifications.