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Thomas Ward and
Ranah Esmaili. Ward previously was enforcement director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under Republican and Democratic administrations. Esmaili was assistant director in the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he served for over seven years.
Melissa Miller joined
Ford Motor Co. s D.C. office as government and public policy communications manager. She previously was communications director for Sen. John Hickenlooper
Rosario Palmieri joined the management and communications company
Kellen as vice president. He previously was associate administrator for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the White House Office of Management and Budget during the Trump administration. Before that, he was vice president of labor, legal and regulatory policy at the National Association of Manufacturers.
One Republican source, who frequently talks to McCarthy, said the GOP leader probably would favor Stefanik, who is close to McCarthy and who was one of Trump’s chief defenders during his first impeachment proceedings in 2019. The source said Walorski, a five-term lawmaker whom McCarthy tapped to lead Republicans on the House Ethics Committee, also would be acceptable.
“It will be Elise or Jackie, one plugged-in, senior House Republican told The Hill, citing the need to have a woman at the leadership table.
Aside from Cheney, McCarthy’s leadership team is almost entirely comprised of white men. Dumping Cheney has created a potentially embarrassing situation for Republican leaders who are both touting the diversity of their 2020 freshman class and hoping to broaden their tent again in the 2022 midterms, when they see a good shot at winning back the House.
The bill, which builds on legislation written by Rep. Judy Chu
The monument was one of 24 covered by a 2017 executive order by then-President Trump
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“There was an attempt to undo [the monument] under the Trump administration. We couldn’t let that be taken away,” Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis (D) said at a news conference Monday announcing the bill, according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
In addition to expanding the monument, the bill would protect 245,000 acres on the state’s central coast and another 317,000 in Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties. Overall, the bill provides for nearly 600,000 acres of new wilderness, according to Padilla’s office.