Interior Nominee Haaland faces Sen. Bill Cassidy's assholishness

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Representative Deb Haaland (D., N.M.) on Tuesday would not say whether she agrees with President Biden’s executive order canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, saying only that “it is his decision” during her confirmation hearing for interior secretary.

Senator Bill Cassidy (R., La.) pressed Haaland on her views on the executive order Biden signed on his first day in office, asking if she agrees with the decision to rescind the pipeline’s permit “knowing that 11,000 current or future jobs are eliminated because of it.”

She acknowledged that the pipeline has been “an issue” that “both sides [are] very passionate” about.

“With respect to President Biden’s decision, it is his decision, he’s the president,” she said.

Cassidy also touched on an exchange from earlier in the hearing in which Senator John Barrasso (R., Wyo.), the ranking member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, questioned Haaland about a tweet from October 2020 in which she claimed that Republicans don’t believe in science.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/interior-nominee-haaland-sidesteps-question-on-biden-s-keystone-xl-order-it-is-his-decision/ar-BB1dWxSc?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

Sounds like the truth hurts Barrasso.

[oasis]

1. "Republicans don't believe in science". How would she get that idea?

[rso]

2. Cassidy

Too bad, Cassidy used up whatever merit he may have gained by voting to impeach Trump.

[catrose]

3. "...he's the president." That's more than most Rs will say.

[turbinetree]

4. Barrasso is an a**hole

and yes she is correct that you and your a**hole buddies don't believe in science

[OnDoutside]

5. Cassidy tried similar crap against Xavier Becerra but Becerra

handled it well I thought.

[Mr.Bill]

6. You have to understand

in the last four years they have forgotten how to ask relevant questions to Cabinet nominees. Trump didn't allow such things.

[nykym]

7. And once completed if that ever happens

it would have the following jobs:

Once the pipeline opens it would require only 35 full-time permanent jobs to run it, and 15 full-time temporary jobs, according to the state department report. TransCanada, the company seeking to build the pipeline, does not dispute those numbers.

https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/27/news/economy/trump-keystone-jobs/index.html

[Brush Bunny]

8. Oh how you nailed it.

Let's add some real truth. These White all Male Senators will never agree to allow a Person of Color with Education to hold a position of Power in Government.

Deb scares the living crap out of these Guy's. She represents those scary people who Privileged White Folk call hired help.