Senate Advances Confirmation of Climate and Native Champion Deb Haaland.EDITED

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Last edited Fri Mar 12, 2021, 02:11 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: truthout

The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s pick for the secretary of the interior, Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) on Thursday with all Democrats and four Republicans voting to advance her confirmation, which will be on Monday. Haaland’s confirmation comes a day after the Senate confirmed Michael Regan to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Haaland, the first Indigenous person to be appointed to that position, has been celebrated by progressives as “a big deal.” When her nomination was announced, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) tweeted, “Historic appointment. A visionary Native woman in charge of federal lands. Unequivocally progressive. Green New Deal champion. Exquisitely experienced.”

EDIT:

The Senate advanced President Joe Biden’s pick for the secretary of the interior, Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) on Thursday with all Democrats and four Republicans voting to advance her confirmation, which will be on Monday. Haaland’s confirmation comes a day after the Senate confirmed Michael Regan to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

https://truthout.org/articles/senate-confirms-progressive-climate-and-native-champion-deb-haaland-to-interior/

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[catbyte]

1. Yessssssssssss!

[bluestarone]

2. Love this

GO team!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ruby Zee]

3. This is amazing!

There is so much good news today!

[turbinetree]

4. And from Native News

https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/final-vote-on-deb-haaland-s-confirmation-to-take-place-next-monday

[flibbitygiblets]

5. YES!!!

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. Wonderful nomination..from Navaho Times article..

https://navajotimes.com/rezpolitics/haaland-survives-hearing-next-full-senate/

President Joe Biden’s nominee, if confirmed by the Senate, will oversee government-to-government relations with 574 tribes, 56 million acres of trust land, Bureau of Indian Education schools serving thousands of Native students, reclamation of abandoned coal mine sites, as well as managing public lands, underground minerals, national parks, monuments, wildlife refuges, dams, reservoirs, energy resources – both fossil fuel and alternative — and tens of thousands of jobs.

This is a big deal for our Native Americans..and ALL Americans..and no small job!!

[onetexan]

25. About time!!! Congrats Sec. Haaland!!

[scarletwoman]

7. Wonderful! I'm really fabulously happy about this!

[ailsagirl]

8. Fantastic!!!

[PatrickforB]

9. Finally!

An Indiginous person to run Interior - the same department with so very much Native American blood on its hands.

[iluvtennis]

10. YASSS! nt

[keopeli]

11. That's my former representative! She's an awesome woman! What a blessing! Go Deb!

[BadgerMom]

12. Great, great news!

Thrilled!

[duhneece]

13. While I'm in southern New Mexico and she, Northern NM

She’s perfect for this job. We are both Emerge NM graduates... the training organization for Democratic women.

[Mickju]

14. That is excellent news.

[ShazzieB]

15. Fantastic!

I had actually lost track of this one and didn't know if it had happened yet. (What can I say, there's just SO much happening these days, and the Senate has been dragging things out, especially with this one.) But I am SO happy to know this is going to be a done deal in a few days!

[SergeStorms]

16. About damned time.

Eminently qualified and the best Dept. of Interior Secretary ever.

[raging moderate]

17. Hooray!

Wonderful news!

[Lucinda]

18. Looking forward to her confirmation on Monday!

This one is a biggie for me!

[burrowowl]

19. Yessss!

Now we have to vote for her replacement!

[riversedge]

20. Smiles all over

[JudyM]

21. This appointment has so much heart. Greatness is upon us. What a day!

[rpannier]

22. Lindsay Graham??? I am surprised

Not surprised about Murkowski or Sullivan

Joe Williams Jr., a Tlingit tribal elder, let Murkowski know he expected her to vote for Haaland to be confirmed. Native Alaskans are about 1 in 5 voters, and were a major reason why she won in 2010. Sullivan likely saw that he would might need their votes when he comes up for re-election as well.

[Hekate]

23. Excellent

[3catwoman3]

24. Excellent news!

[stuffmatters]

26. So so wonderful

[Lonestarblue]

27. This just makes my day!

Having someone who actually cares about Native Americans and the environment in charge is so inspiring. I think Biden is putting together the best cabinet in history!

[BumRushDaShow]

28. Excellent and congrats to Secretary Haaland!!!

[jcgoldie]

29. This was just a vote for cloture

I think the confirmation will come Monday unless I am mistaken. I don't think this article is accurate.

That said I'm as excited about Haaland as any of Biden's cabinet picks.

[Chrysanthemum]

30. Actual vote tally?

You would think an article about the vote to confirm Haaland would contain an actual vote tally. But no. If I want to know how many scummy Republicans voted against her and how many crossed the aisle and voted with Democrats, I'm going to have to dig up other articles. Sheesh.

But I'm truly glad you posted this great good news anyway! I expect very good things from her as Secretary.

[NurseJackie]

31. Thank you! I was about the post the exact same criticism. You'd think...

Thank you! I was about the post the exact same criticism. You'd think... huh?

Lazy reporting.

[msfiddlestix]

32. Happy to read she's been confirmed out of committee. but the heading is misleading

The Senate hasn't confirmed yet. Senate Committees are quite a bit different than The Senate.

I'm only making the point on this, because I've never seen more confusion regarding a mass of other confirmations reported, when they were NOT the Senate; only a committee and sometimes not even the main committee related to or the one overseeing relative to the Cabinet post appointment in question.

I lost count on how many times I read Garland confirmed, when it was actually just a committee of a certain task, when there were more than one. Journalists need to be more specific in their headlines imo.

[Bayard]

33. Oh...... So this isn't a done deal afterall?

I am thrilled to have her in this position! So much wrong over the past 4 years, to put right.....

[wendyb-NC]

34. Yay.

I was worried that requelicans, would pitch a fit, for no real reason at all, other than being obstreperous.