BREAKING: Manchin tanks Biden nominee over climate activism
Former U.S. Homeland Security Adviser Dr. Julia Nesheiwat joined 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to discuss what the leaked climate memo indicates about the Biden administration's priorities.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced Friday he will block aManchin noted that his decision — which effectively kills President Biden's nomination of Laura Daniel-Davis to serve as DOI's assistant secretary for land and minerals management — came in response to anthat was leaked last week.
"Today, I have also decided, as chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, that I will not be moving forward the nomination of Laura Daniel-Davis as assistant secretary of the Department of Interior," Manchin wrote in an op-ed for The Houston Chronicle. "Daniel-Davis approved higher royalty rates for the Alaskan Cook Inlet sale, which were explicitly designed to decrease fossil energy production at the expense of our energy security," he continued."Even though I supported her in the past, I cannot, in good conscience, support her or anyone else who will play partisan politics and agree with this misguided and dangerous manipulation of the law."President Biden first nominated Daniel-Davis for the position in June 2021.
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