Haaland Confirmed as First Indigenous Secretary of the Interior
WASHINGTON, DC, March 15, 2021 (ENS) – History was made today as the U.S. Senate voted 51-40 to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominee Congresswoman Debra Haaland as Secretary of the Interior. After she is sworn in, Haaland will be the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary. In 2018, she became one of the first two Native women elected to Congress.
Serving as the U.S. Representative for New Mexico’s 1st congressional district since 2019, Haaland is a member of the Laguna Pueblo, a federally recognized tribe of Native American Pueblo people in west-central New Mexico, near the city of Albuquerque.
Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming recently spoke on the Senate Floor, voicing her opposition to President Biden’s nomination of Representative Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior.
Opinion: U.S. Senators fail in bid to harm transgender students
Portsmouth Herald
March 6 To the Editor:
In recent weeks, federal and state legislators have launched attacks against their student constituents for simply being transgender kids who want to play sports. Today, we saw that escalate to the floor of the United States Senate in the form of a cruel and discriminatory amendment proposed by Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) to the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a $1.9 trillion dollar COVID-19 relief package specifically designed to help the American people recover from unprecedented economic and social hardship.
Amendment 1386, co-sponsored by Senators Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) stated, As a condition of receiving funds under section 2001, 2003, or 2005, a State, local educational agency, or institution of higher education may not permit any student whose biological sex (recognized based solely on a person s reproductive biology and genetics at bir
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