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Two important government positions currently vacant are the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) Director and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director roles.
To “build back better,” President Joe Biden must retract support for David Chipman and Tracy Stone-Manning, respectively, and demand they withdraw their nominations immediately.
Both picks are incredibly controversial. One is a brazen partisan and anti-gun zealot gunning for a traditionally apolitical role, while the other reportedly gave cover to an eco-terrorist organization in the 1980’s and deliberately lied about it.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is calling on the Biden administration to withdraw the nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Tracy Stone-Manning. It was reported recently that Stone-Manning was involved previously with eco-terrorism, specifically tree spiking.
The nominee lied to the Senate in testimony about the occurrences, McConnell said.
“We now know that President Biden’s nominee to run the Bureau of Land Management lied to the Senate about her alleged participation in eco-terrorism,” McConell said, per The Hill. “The White House should immediately withdraw her nomination.”
Republicans on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee have also called on President Biden to withdraw Stone-Manning’s nomination.
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With no Republican support, the best Ms. Stone-Manning can hope for is a tie vote in the committee, meaning that Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer would need to call a vote of the full Senate to discharge her nomination.
What’s more, the committee is headed by Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the Senate’s most centrist Democrat. He has not commented publicly on the nominee, and no committee vote is scheduled on her nomination.
Ms. Stone-Manning told the committee in her questionnaire she had never been under federal investigation even though she received immunity from prosecution to testify in 1993 in the tree-spiking case.
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