US Dept. of Interior halts sponsorship of all House trips to various agency sites around the country amid complaint over staff behavior
HOUSTON — The Department of the Interior has decided to halt its sponsorship of all House trips to various agency sites around the country until a resolution can be found to a dispute over the rules of engagement between congressional staff and the career and political officials who facilitate the oversight visits, according to a senior department official.
It was Willens who requested that House Appropriations Committee staff member Peter Kiefhaber return immediately to Washington after an incident during a House appropriations staff tour of BLM sites in Nevada in late August in which Willens described Kiefhaber's behavior toward a Washington-based BLM official as"overly aggressive and unprofessional."
Evan Hollander, spokesman for the House Appropriations Committee, fired back in an email to NBC News. On Sept. 6, Willens sent a letter to the House Ethics Committee about the incident requesting an investigation, in which he alleged Kiefhaber had blocked acting BLM chief of staff Amanda Kaster from entering a meeting, called her a"minder" to the media and"verbally accosted and bullied" her.and Kiefhaber, a longtime aide to appropriators on both sides of the Capitol.
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