Pelosi backs Haaland for interior secretary, calling her âone of the bestâ members of Congress.
Representative Deb Haaland, Democrat of New Mexico, would be the first Native American to lead the Interior Department. Credit.Jim Thompson/The Albuquerque Journal, via Associated Press
Dec. 16, 2020
Top Democrats in the House, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, publicly expressed support on Wednesday for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. to choose Representative Deb Haaland of New Mexico as interior secretary, rebuffing criticism that they were standing in the way of her appointment over concerns about the partyâs slim majority in their chamber.
For weeks, rank-and-file House Democrats, progressive groups and tribal leaders have been pushing for Mr. Biden to select Ms. Haaland, who would be the first Native American to lead the Interior Department, and have grown frustrated over the belief that Democratic leadership might be blocking her.
Joe Biden says he s confident son Hunter did nothing wrong Follow Us
Question of the Day In this file photo from 2009, then-Vice President-elect, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., left, stands with his son Hunter during a re-enactment of the Senate oath ceremony, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. . more > By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
President-elect Joseph R. Biden on Wednesday said he’s confident his son, Hunter Biden, did nothing wrong amid a federal investigation and increasing calls for a special counsel to probe the younger Biden’s business dealings.
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WHEN DEMOCRATS TRIED TO BLOCK THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. The Electoral College voted on Monday to elect Joe Biden president. That is done. But there is one more step in the process. On January 6, Congress will officially ratify the Electoral College vote and declare Biden the president-elect. But now, there is talk that some House Republicans will try to disrupt the ceremony. Even after the Electoral College certified President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the winner of the election on Monday, some of President Trump s staunchest allies in Congress refused to accept his loss, the New York Times reported, vowing that they could still reverse the results on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. The left-wing magazine The Nation wrote, Republicans will take their assault on democracy to Congress and it will be awful.”
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Biden to Name Gina McCarthy, Former E.P.A. Chief, as White House Climate Coordinator
Ms. McCarthy will serve as a senior adviser to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., coordinating climate change policy throughout the government.
Gina McCarthy led the Environmental Protection Agency from 2013 to 2017 and helped design Obama-era climate regulations.Credit.Sarah Blesener for The New York Times
Dec. 15, 2020
WASHINGTON President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to pick Gina McCarthy, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Barack Obama and the architect of some of his most far-reaching regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions, to serve as senior White House adviser on climate change, according to three people close to the Biden transition team.