Republicans put procedural delay on Haaland's nomination

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill


BY RACHEL FRAZIN - 03/09/21 10:03 AM EST

Two GOP Senators have put holds on Rep. Deb Haaland’s nomination to be Interior Secretary, putting up a procedural hurdle that will delay the New Mexico Democrat's final confirmation vote.

Sens. Steve Daines (Mont.) and Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.) said they will force debate on Haaland’s nomination, which would last for 30 hours.

Despite the delay, Haaland, a New Mexico Democrat, is still expected to be confirmed since she’ll need just a simple majority to eventually get to the floor.

A statement from Daines’s office said the senator thinks it's important to have a floor debate on Haaland’s record.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/542285-republicans-put-procedural-delay-on-haalands-nomination

[LizBeth]

1. What is their gripe with Haaland?

[meow2u3]

2. She's Indigenous

GOP racism is rearing its ugly head yet again. They expect nothing less than corrupt cronies and/or white supremacists to run the Interior Dept.

[sandensea]

31. And Armageddon freaks

[catbyte]

3. She's a Native American woman who will head the BIA & believes in climate change.

She is also opposed to selling off federal lands to oil, gas, logging, and mining companies.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. "She believes in climate change,

and is opposed to selling off federal lands to oil, gas, logging, and mining companies."

In other words, opposed to the RepubliCon Agenda.....

[RVN VET71]

23. The racist party will continue to be racist

and both Daines and Lummis want to make very clear that they are fully fledged members and believers.

(BTW, I prefer to say that she trusts the science about climate change. Saying she believe in it just seems to open the door to a “well you believe what you believe and I’ll believe what I believe” argument which is exactly how all those thousands of righteous people died in the Bowling Green Massacre.)

[LittleGirl]

4. That was my question!

If it’s just racists bloviating, I just want to smack ‘em upside the head. Come on!

[LizBeth]

9. Tanden it was "mean" tweets. Still not seeing their reason to go particularly hard on Haaland.

[aggiesal]

12. Rep. Haaland is very strict on how to use public lands ...

including Native American land.

Both Senator's would like to see protections (i.e. regulations) for public lands & Native American land removed,
to open up for mineral and oil exploration. Senator's would like to Profitize (i.e. privative) public lands.

[LizBeth]

13. O.K. Thank you. At least this is about policy and not the petty "mean" tweet, but not much there.

[aggiesal]

14. Well, on the face of it, yes the policy is their "official" excuse ...

but they're really doing it to be petty & mean.

QOP's definition of unity is (D)'s unite to everything we want.

[LizBeth]

15. Woman and vocal do not mix. Throw in POC and that is ultimately the reason, I get it.

[AZ8theist]

26. Repukes are fucking racists. PERIOD.

[turbinetree]

6. FU Daines and Lummis, your still enabler's to treason and you both voted NO on relief

and your pissed off that you are not a Native, really,,, your party is mothing more than racist's POS's .................let's have thirty hour debate on your treason and your racisms ....................

[scarletwoman]

7. "... it's important to have a floor debate on Haaland's record." No, it's not. It's just the repigs

wanting to fuck with everything the Dems are trying to do.

[Traildogbob]

8. Unity

Reach out across the aisle. Fuck the GQP.
And the pundits that keep asking Dems what about unity?

[greenjar_01]

10. They'll get their 30 hours...Haaland will get four years

At least.

Their temper tantrums are meaningless.

[Bayard]

11. At this point,

They're just being assholes for the sake of being assholes.

Expect this for the next 8 years.

[Moostache]

19. if the current incarnation of the Republican Party EXISTS in 8 years, I will be quite saddened...

They are a base organization of lowlifes and - YES, it is STILL TRUE - DEPLORABLES (and much more than a mere basket full).

The in-fighting and sacrifice of any pretense of a governing philosophy beyond "Uh...Me like Trump, You all bad" or the ever lovely "Fuck your feelings" is truly a brand that should stain party adherents and ultimately lead to the creation of a new center-right party and a gradual bleeding off of these far right extremists.

I hope there is no further bloodshed in the process, but that is up to the crazies now.

[LaMouffette]

16. Daines is on my permanent shit list for telling Senator Elizabeth Warren to sit down when she tried

to read a quotation from a letter from Coretta Scott King.

Daines was presiding over the Senate when, in concert with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, he blocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren from finishing a speech against Sen. Jeff Sessions’ confirmation as attorney general. He and McConnell convicted Warren of violating Rule 19, which says that “no Senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator.”

Their decision to block Warren’s speech was upheld by a party-line vote of the Senate. A University of Miami political scientist could find evidence of only two similar votes in Senate history, the last in 1952.

What’s worse, Warren’s remarks weren’t aimed at Sessions in his capacity as a senator. They instead invoked accusations of racism that were used to deny Sessions a federal judge’s job back in 1986.

To have failed to reconsider those accusations at his new confirmation hearing would have been dereliction of the Senate’s duty. No matter how nice Warren might have tried to be about it, there is just no way to avoid imputing unworthy conduct to someone who lost a federal job because of racism.

https://missoulacurrent.com/opinion/2017/02/montana-steve-daines-elizabeth-warren/?print=print

[MontanaMama]

30. As a Montanan I can tell you he's

a POS. Daines has had his undies in a wad over Haaland since she came out against the Keystone Pipeline (as did President Biden). Keystone is a major donor to Daines.

[LaMouffette]

32. I'm one, too! And I agree with you 1,000 percent on Daines.

At least he has stopped with the "tele-townhalls." God, how I hated to hear his recorded voice, cheerful as a chipmunk, on our voicemail, inviting us to join in on one of his calls (too much of a coward to hold an in-person town hall, of course!).

I was so disappointed when Bullock didn't beat him. I thought we really had a shot, but our Trump-addled fellow Montanans were whipped into a frenzy by the Mango Menace and turned out in full, frothing force on Election Day.

Here's hoping we get a really good contender in six years to run against Daines. I'm hoping that one of the many celebrities who have recently "discovered" Montana might decide to run for office (if they're a Dem!). Maybe someone with star power could overcome the Republican bulwark here in our beautiful state!

[pandr32]

17. Posturing to ask for campaign donations likely

It's all they care about.

[LiberalLovinLug]

18. Its just to cause more delay for Biden's admin from getting going

I heard already its some kind of record how long his appointees are taking to be confirmed.

BTW, not an American. How the hell did you guys manage, in your Republic, to force the winning President to not be able to simply pick his own appointments and get on with it? He won! I don't know of any other democracy in the world where the opposition can nix the winners choice to head up each department.

[MarcA]

22. The US was not founded as a democratic nation.

To a large extent it still isn't.

[BadgerMom]

20. They are hateful. They are bigoted racists. They are science deniers.

I am so effing done with them today. I may need a news break.

[usaf-vet]

21. Two Racists put hold on her confirmation. Seem more likely the case. IMO

[Hekate]

24. ...because they can, & because they will slow-walk nearly every appointment to try to cripple Biden

Gods, I hate the GOPers.

[Hortensis]

29. THIS. This is their new standard minority-party delay/stall tactic.

It replaces their previous majority-power "die in the senate" tactic.

They threaten to delay everything they can by any means possible, not just appointments but all bills and congressional procedures they don't have their own need to move faster. Sometimes they can leverage this to gain some concession, but most of the time they follow through.

[DFW]

25. Republican reasoning: She's qualified and right for the job. You think THAT's enough to confirm her?

"For us Republicans, that is reason enough NOT to confirm her! Didn't you silly libbruls learn ANYTHING from when we confirmed Trump's cabinet?"

[Martin68]

27. Pure spite. Nothing to be gained by delaying the vote except to inconvenience the candidate, the

President, and the entire country.

[NCjack]

28. Calling Sen. Ron Johnson: Time for another one of your circus stunts,

one of those in which your cigar explodes in your face.

[Blue Owl]

33. Bwah!