They seem to, at the very end. This might have been the one you watched; it’s the COVID one from yesterday. https://www.rev.com/transcript-editor/shared/Q5LYNaGAX0Idb8srJnDmam-VuTj3nNU3WWDWG7miOXONteBxFmgwV5L9O379Mb8FHFEIS3rZcjfLCsPjhuYh2Hdhg7k?loadFrom=PastedDeeplink&ts=136.76
If you forward the blue bar under the video to about 13:42 and hit ‘play’ it will show Biden walking out of the room; you can see people with microphones as he’s leaving and then as the camera swivels back towards the podium, you can see photographers getting up out of the floor.
According to the President’s calendar, all of the press conferences with Biden except one have been in the State Dining Room (cream walls, striped curtains, fireplace). I verified that with the White House interactive tour of the room. The one exception was the Made in America EO signing; it was in the South Court Auditorium. It’s the one with the blue background with the Presidential seal and the round ‘The future will be made in America’ graphic.
Jen Psaki has been holding the daily press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room.
very repsectful press. There were no questions during the briefing. B spoke for more than 14 minutes with no teleprompters showing. The big screen from which he reads may have been on the back wall of the room. He is smart to use it.
Biden Administration Sued For Halting Oil, Gas Leasing On Federal Lands
The lawsuit (pdf) was filed in the U.S. District Court in Wyoming by the Western Energy Alliance, a group representing fossil fuel producers on federal lands. They say President Joe Biden exceeded his authority with the recent order.
“The law is clear. Presidents don’t have authority to ban leasing on public lands. All Americans own the oil and natural gas beneath public lands, and Congress has directed them to be responsibly developed on their behalf,” Alliance President Kathleen Sgamma said in a statement, according to The Washington Times. “Drying up new leasing puts future development as well as existing projects at risk. President Biden cannot simply ignore laws in effect for over half a century.”
The executive order, Sgamma said, violates the Mineral Leasing Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Federal Lands Policy and Management Act.
The lawsuit argues that the administration’s suspension of the federal oil and gas leasing program is “an unsupported and unnecessary action that is inconsistent with the Secretary’s statutory obligations” and is “both arbitrary and capricious.”
The Biden executive order sets up a “pause on entering into new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or offshore waters to the extent possible” and will launch a “rigorous review of all existing leasing and permitting practices related to fossil fuel development on public lands and waters,” according to the White House.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-administration-sued-halting-oil-gas-leasing-federal-lands