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President Bidenâs nominee to serve as director of the Bureau of Land Management is facing mounting opposition from Republicans in Congress amid concerns about what role she played decades ago with a group involved in a tree-spiking incident in an Idaho national forest. Still unclear, though, is whether the opposition to Tracy Stone-Manningâs nomination will cross party lines and jeopardize her chances of confirmation in the Democrat-controlled Senate. U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., sits on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which would need to approve Stone-Manningâs nomination for it to move forward. A Hickenlooper spokesperson said Friday that he plans to support Stone-Manningâs nomination but did not provide further comment other than to refer back to a June 4 statement in which Hickenlooper said in part that Stone-Manning âvalues public lands as much as Coloradans do and has experience working with Western communities on ....
Share Source: AP Photo/Alex Brandon Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is calling on the Biden administration to withdraw the nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Tracy Stone-Manning. It was reported recently that Stone-Manning was involved previously with eco-terrorism, specifically tree spiking. The nominee lied to the Senate in testimony about the occurrences, McConnell said. “We now know that President Biden’s nominee to run the Bureau of Land Management lied to the Senate about her alleged participation in eco-terrorism,” McConell said, per The Hill. “The White House should immediately withdraw her nomination.” Republicans on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee have also called on President Biden to withdraw Stone-Manning’s nomination. ....
With no Republican support, the best Ms. Stone-Manning can hope for is a tie vote in the committee, meaning that Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer would need to call a vote of the full Senate to discharge her nomination. What’s more, the committee is headed by Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the Senate’s most centrist Democrat. He has not commented publicly on the nominee, and no committee vote is scheduled on her nomination. Ms. Stone-Manning told the committee in her questionnaire she had never been under federal investigation even though she received immunity from prosecution to testify in 1993 in the tree-spiking case. ....