Heinrich Introduces Native New Mexican Tanya Trujillo For Consideration As Assistant Secretary For Water & Science
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WASHINGTON, D.C. Tuesday, in a key Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to consider pending nominations, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) introduced native New Mexican Tanya Trujillo for consideration to be Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the U.S. Department of the Interior.
In the hearing, Sen. Heinrich requested that Trujillo make sure that the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (NGWSP) stays on track and on budget moving forward. Trujillo agreed to work with Sen. Heinrich to ensure that the project is “fully funded and completed.” Recently, Senator Heinrich visited the newly-completed Cutter Lateral Water Treatment Plant that is part of the NGWSP.
Published: Friday, April 30, 2021
Michael Connor. Photo credit: U.S. Department of Interior/Flickr
President Biden has selected Michael Connor as his nominee for Department of Defense s assistant secretary of the Army for civil works. Connor, pictured at the far right at a 2015 service event, previously served as the Interior Department s deputy secretary. U.S. Department of Interior/Flickr
President Biden s pick this week to oversee the Army s vast natural resources operation would bring to the job decades of water experience at the Interior Department and on Capitol Hill.
The president tapped Michael Connor to be the Department of Defense s assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, which oversees the Army Corps of Engineers and its huge network of dams and other projects.
Key lines from Biden s first joint address to Congress Jonathan Ernst/Pool/AP
President Biden spoke in detail tonight about a range of topics including the coronavirus pandemic, immigration and gun violence during his first joint address to Congress.
If you missed the speech, here are Biden s most notable lines:
On getting the Covid-19 vaccine administered: After I promised we would get 100 million Covid-19 shots into people s arms in 100 days, we will have provided over 220 million Covid shots in those 100 days, Biden said. We re marshaling every federal resource. We ve gotten vaccinations to nearly 40,000 pharmacies and over 700 community health centers where the poorest of the poor can be reached. We re setting up community vaccination sites, developing mobile units to get the hard to reach communities. Today, 90% of Americans now live within five miles of a vaccination site.
Biden faces a skeptical Democratic senator tonight: Joe Manchin
From CNN s Manu Raju Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin has made his resistance to elements of the agenda that President Biden will discuss tonight clear.
Manchin, who holds a crucial vote in the 50-50 Senate, will be in attendance tonight for Biden’s speech. In many ways, the fate of much of Biden’s agenda will come down to the West Virginia lawmaker.
In addition to saying he is “very uncomfortable” with trillions in new spending programs, Manchin addressed concerns with raising capital gains taxes to help pay for the plans. He also brushed back talk among Democratic leaders to try to advance the proposals along party lines through the budget process, as they are now planning to do next month.