Posted on 09/30/2021 6:50:37 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly divided Senate late Thursday approved President Joe Biden’s choice to oversee vast government-owned lands in the West, despite Republican complaints that she is an “eco-terrorist.″
Tracy Stone-Manning, Biden’s choice to lead the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, was approved, 50-45, on a party-line vote. Five Republican senators missed the vote.
Republicans sharply criticized her nomination during an often acrimonious Senate debate, with several holding up a metal spike similar to one used in a 1989 environmental sabotage case.
Democrats defended Stone-Manning, noting she was never charged with a crime and in fact testified against two men who were convicted of spiking trees to sabotage a timber sale in Idaho’s Clearwater National Forest.
Her advocacy for land preservation contrasts sharply with the land bureau’s priorities under former President Donald Trump, who sped up oil and gas drilling and sought to open new lands to development. But her nomination has been dogged by Republican accusations of wrongdoing in the foiled 1989 plot.
At the time, she was a 23-year-old environmental studies graduate student at the University of Montana. Two of Stone-Manning’s friends were later convicted of inserting metal spikes into trees, which makes them dangerous to cut and can be used to block logging.
She received immunity from prosecutors, testified against the two men and was never charged with any crime.
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They didn’t spike her appointment?
Approach her carefully with chainsaws running.
So where were the 5 missing “republicans”.
A$$holes all of them.
5 of our guys didn’t even bother to show up for the vote.
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“So where were the 5 missing “republicans”.
A$$holes all of them.”
That was my first thought. I’ll see if I can find who they were.
In order to qualify for the illegitimate Biden cabinet, you have to be two things....ultra-left wing and completely incompetent.
The useless pieces of crap that didn’t bother showing up are:
Tommy Tuberville from Alabama
Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee
John Cornyn from Texas
Jerry Moran from Kansas
Rand Paul from Kentucky
Earth First takes over the West
Bundy’s will be attacked at dawn
The useless pieces of crap that didn’t bother showing up are:
Tommy Tuberville from Alabama
Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee
John Cornyn from Texas
Jerry Moran from Kansas
Rand Paul from Kentucky
GOP needs to take a page from Texas rats.
Commielah can break a tie vote, she cannot establish a quorum. 51 is a quorum. If they come after the filibuster to pass the voter fraud bill Mitch better learn that real fast.
Also FU Joe Manchin and Kirsten Enema. This bitch is A TERRORIST. She was involved with tree spiking which could have killed someone.
Of course its Cornyn, probably cashing another Check to look the other way.
An eco-terrorist heading the BLM. Welcome to Amerika.
No more grazing on fed lands soon to follow.
Wouldn't make a difference - Who would make the motion to suggest the absence of a quorum? Who would object to a unanimous consent voice vote?
Wouldn’t have made a difference with all 50 Dems in favor - but Harris should have been forced to show up to cast the tie breaking vote. Make them own it.
Why weren’t they there?
How were Texas house rats or Oregon Senate GOP able to do it then?
Time to disband the BLM and return the land to the states
Marsha Blackburn? Wow, I wonder what her explanation is?
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