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Posted on 04/18/2018 1:35:18 PM PDT by jazusamo
A group of 131 representatives and 39 senators signed a resolution introduced Wednesday that calls for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt to resign.
The resolution states that the co-signers have "no confidence in the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and [are] calling for the immediate resignation of the Administrator."
Highlighted within the resolution are concerns about Pruitt's use of taxpayer money, "dramatic" budget cuts and waivers given to employees to work at connected companies while still employed by the EPA.
"The Agency is hemorrhaging staff and experts needed to protect the health, safety, and livelihood of mil-lions of people of the United States, with more than 700 employees of the Agency having left or been forced outof the Agency during his tenure as Administrator," reads the resolution.
The lawmakers argue that Pruitt is failing to uphold his job as administrator due to regulation rollbacks and actions to lower environmental protections at the agency they say should remain "science based."
"Whereas Administrator Pruitt has failed to exercise the enforcement authorities of the Agency, which are necessary to the fulfillment of the mission of the Agency, and has hampered career officials and experts from efficiently doing their jobs without political interference," the resolution reads.
The resolution, signed entirely by Democrats, had the most senators to ever sign for a resolution calling for a Cabinet official’s ouster, according to their press release.
Notably absent from the letter were the signatures of the three Republican members of Congress who previously called for Pruitt to resign or be fired-- Reps. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), Carlos Curbelo (Fla.) and Illeana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.).
A number of Democrats have called for Pruitt's resignation or firing since news broke at the end of March that he rented a $50 dollar a night condo from the wife of a prominent energy lobbyist. Pruitt has maintained that the arrangement was ethical and approved by the agency's ethics office after the fact.
The administrator has met criticism namely from the left since being confirmed. Pruitt was asked more than 1,000 questions during the nomination and passed through confirmation with the few votes ever for an EPA administrator.
That shows how GREAT a job Pruitt is doing! America can do it with Pruitt!
Bump!
This guy is perfect for the EPA.
Rats do not count. They lost, we won. Sucks to be them.
When you get a lot of flak you know you are over the target.
Keep going, Pruitt!!!
MAGA!!!
No leftist should have a voice in anything—ever.
I saw that. It means that Pruitt is doing a FANTASTIC job.
Scott Pruitt is a shining star in the Trump Administration.
He is doing a fantastic job.
The EPA has been a massive center of unconstitutional power for decades, and has done enormous damage to the United States.
Thanks, Rats have short memories.
That is the perfect endorsement.
Who cares? Everyone of these rotten bastards would have signed that same resolution the day the President announced Pruitt’s nomination.
The flak is always heavier over the target!
Like the double dipping arrangement Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set up for main squeeze Huma Abedin?
The one where not one democrat or republican complained at the time?
Hillary Clinton Personally Signed Off On Job Change for Huma Abedin
https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/24/hillary-clinton-personally-signed-off-on-job-change-for-huma-abedin/Weiner’s Wife Didn’t Disclose Consulting Work She Did While Serving In State Dept.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/nyregion/weiners-wife-huma-abedin-failed-to-disclose-consulting-work-done-while-a-state-dept-aide.html
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Fine.
he can resign as he is turning out the lights and shuts the door for the last time at the EPA headquarters
YAWN! “The resolution, signed entirely by Democrats....”
Right on!
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