Posted on 02/11/2024 7:10:17 AM PST by Libloather
Moderate Senate Democrats were silent this week when Fox News Digital asked for a comment on President Biden's decision to appoint climate czar John Kerry's replacement without Senate confirmation.
**SNIP**
While Kerry will step down as special presidential envoy for climate (SPEC), Biden will not nominate a direct replacement, and Kerry's staff will report to another State Department official while Podesta coordinates policy with the SPEC office from the White House. The arrangement allows Podesta to sidestep a congressionally mandated Senate confirmation since the SPEC role will technically be left vacant.
"Upon Secretary Kerry’s departure, the existing SPEC state team will report to Rich Verma, the deputy secretary of state for management and resources," a White House official told Fox News Digital. "John will continue to oversee the White House Office of Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation while working closely with the State Department."
Shortly after taking office in 2021, Biden appointed Kerry to be the first-ever SPEC, a role that granted him a spot in the president's cabinet and National Security Council but didn't require a Senate confirmation vote.
However, in part because of Kerry's appointment, Congress passed a provision in the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, which Biden signed into law in December 2021, prohibiting the president from appointing any State Department special envoy "without the advice and consent of the Senate."
In response to the White House's maneuver skirting Senate confirmation for Podesta, several more moderate Democrats, including senators Jon Tester, D-Mont.; Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio; Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.; Bob Casey, D-Pa.; and Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., in addition to Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., who caucuses with Democrats, were all silent. The lawmakers either ignored or declined to comment when contacted by Fox News Digital.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ben Cardin, D-Md., didn't respond to requests for comment.
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What’s a moderate demon rat?
Disgusting.
Another freak show will be missing one of their freaks.
“”The arrangement allows Podesta to sidestep a congressionally mandated Senate confirmation””
That guy has been sidestepping everything since he hooked up with the Clintons. I wish the writer had been more specific on which “John” he was talking about - “John will continue”......John Kerry or John Podesta?
Have you ever seen more pathetic looking individuals than those two “johns” shown in the article? Good grief!
I defined a “moderate Democrat” yesterday.
They favor tampons in half of the school boys rooms—and propose a large bureaucracy to study how to allocate those tampons “fairly”.
Lol.
Kerry is leaving because he has been discovered to be onvolved with espionage here in the US with Iran.
He should be tried and executed.
This would all be revealed if they tried to cofirm his replacement in the Senate.
The newer ones stupid enough to allow themselves to be blackmailed by the likes of people such as Pedosta.
This is exactly what President Trump should do to get around the senate (whether controlled by the demo-commies, or their republican fellow travelers) refusing to confirm the best (non-DS) person for whatever job he wants to place them in. He might put someone in place that lies and turns out to be bad for the slot, but he can dump him immediately and get somebody else in without delay. He’s going to have to move fast over the next four years to make serious in-roads into the bureaucratic corruption in DC.
Go to this Wikipedia article and you’ll see a sketch of two men who look EXACTLY like the Podesta Brothers. So it certainly makes sense as to why Biden’s people want keep John Podesta away from Senate scrutiny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Madeleine_McCann
Moderates allow their victims to hang until they're dead.
Leftists cut their victims down so they can then be castrated, disembowelled, and quartered.
DickTater Traitor Joe acts more like a 3rd World despot every day and his regime continues Banana Republic tactics.
Evil collaborators.
Kerry needs his war medals taken away and Podesta his pizza.
-PJ
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