| Updated: Feb. 24, 2021, 2:37 p.m.
All Americans should get a say in how national monuments are designated and managed — including those who make a living off the land — Rep. Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden’s historic nominee for Interior secretary, said as her Senate confirmation hearing got underway Tuesday.
Her remarks came in response to a question posed by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who came to the hearing armed with a letter New Mexico’s second-term Democratic congresswoman penned two years ago to the Interior Department in which she questioned the influence the agency gave miners and livestock grazers on its decisions regarding the Beehive State’s national monuments.