{"id":8851,"date":"2021-03-09T17:40:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T22:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=8851"},"modified":"2021-03-10T11:33:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T16:33:51","slug":"cronkite-news-indian-country-awaits-final-vote-on-deb-haaland-for-cabinet-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/03\/09\/cronkite-news-indian-country-awaits-final-vote-on-deb-haaland-for-cabinet-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Cronkite News: Indian Country awaits final vote on Deb Haaland for Cabinet post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\r\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eIvGLjOv1aE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Indianz.Com Video: <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/03\/10\/haaland-will-be-confirmed-by-the-senate-deb-haaland-debforinterior\/>\u2018Haaland will be confirmed by the Senate\u2019: Deb Haaland #DebForInterior<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Committee vote moves Haaland one step closer to historic Interior post<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Tuesday, March 9, 2021<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Ryan Knappenberger<\/div>\r\n<DIV class=source>Cronkite News<\/DIV>\r\n<DIV class=source-website><A \r\nhref=\"https:\/\/cronkitenews.azpbs.org\/\">cronkitenews.azpbs.org<\/A><\/DIV>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nWASHINGTON &#8211; A Senate committee narrowly voted last Thursday to advance Rep. Debra Haaland&#8217;s nomination to be the next secretary of Interior, moving her one step closer to becoming the first Native American to head a Cabinet-level agency.<p><\/p>\r\n\r\nThe Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee \r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.senate.gov\/hearings\/2021\/3\/business-meeting\">voted 11-9<\/a>\r\nto send Haaland&#8217;s nomination to the full Senate, over the objections of Republicans who said her &#8220;radical views&#8221; are &#8220;squarely at odds with the mission of the Department of the Interior and outside of the mainstream.&#8221;\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nBut Democrats praised the New Mexico Democrat&#8217;s policy positions and cited her record of bipartisanship as a member of the House. Analysts expect she will pick up a couple Republican votes in the full Senate, giving her more than the 51 needed to win confirmation.<p><\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) is on her way to making history yet again, clearing her first vote to serve as Secretary of the Interior in the Joe Biden administration. <br><br>Check out the recap to learn who is for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DebForInterior?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DebForInterior<\/a> and who isn&#39;t.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V26lt7TqGx\">https:\/\/t.co\/V26lt7TqGx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; indianz.com (@indianz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/indianz\/status\/1367585242798845955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nNews of the preliminary approval was welcomed by tribal groups.<p><\/p>\r\n\r\n&#8220;We need Congresswoman Haaland on the job without delay,&#8221; said Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians, in a \r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncai.org\/news\/articles\/2021\/03\/04\/congresswoman-debra-haaland-on-the-verge-of-making-history-as-secretary-of-interior\">prepared statement.<\/a>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n&#8220;The nation needs her leadership and vision to help lead our response to climate change, to steward our lands and ensure \u2026 the United States lives up to its trust and treaty obligations to tribal nations and our citizens,&#8221; said Sharp, who called it &#8220;fitting that while we celebrate Women&#8217;s History Month, Deb Haaland is poised to make it.&#8221;<p><\/p>\r\nIf confirmed, Haaland would take over an agency with about 70,000 employees and a budget of more than $21 billion. In addition to overseeing hundreds of national parks and monuments, the department manages 480 million acres &#8211; nearly one-fifth of the total land area of the U.S. &#8211; and 700 million acres of minerals, including coal, oil and natural gas, as well as renewable energy sources.<p><\/p>\r\nThe department also includes the Bureau of Indian Affairs and holds most tribal lands in trust, a fact that makes President Joe Biden&#8217;s nomination of Haaland particularly important to her supporters.<p><\/p>\r\n<figure>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-attachment-id=\"8855\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/03\/09\/cronkite-news-indian-country-awaits-final-vote-on-deb-haaland-for-cabinet-post\/debhaaland-15\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/09\/debhaaland-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 80D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1562857840&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;89&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;3200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.04&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"debhaaland\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/naturalresourcesdems\/48260455497\/&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/09\/debhaaland-1024x683.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/09\/debhaaland-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"debhaaland\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8855\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico). Photo courtesy <a href=https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/naturalresourcesdems\/48260455497\/>House Committee on Natural Resources, Democrats<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nIf Haaland, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna, is confirmed it will be a &#8220;crucial turning point in the history of the federal government&#8217;s relationship with Indigenous people&#8221; said Jenny Rowland-Shea, senior policy analyst of public lands at the Center for American Progress.<p><\/p>\r\nHaaland&#8217;s ancestry was cited Thursday by Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, the only committee Republican to vote in favor of the nomination. She also noted that Interior plays an &#8220;outsized role&#8221; in her state.<p><\/p>\r\n&#8220;We have federal lands, more mineral resources, more natural hazards than any other state,&#8221; Murkowski said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got many, many Indigenous peoples and cultures who have lived there since, as they say, time immemorial.&#8221;<p><\/p>\r\nSen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said he was attracted by Haaland&#8217;s bipartisan record in the House, a quality needed more than ever after the Capitol riot of January 6, a day that &#8220;changed me, as I know changed most of you.&#8221;<p><\/p>\r\n&#8220;I feel so incredibly strongly that in today&#8217;s time with the deepest divisions running through our country, and the halls of Congress, we have to have people who have demonstrated they have the temperament to reach across the aisle,&#8221; said Manchin, the chair of the committee.<p><\/p><div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><p><\/p>\r\nBut most Republican members, particularly those from oil and gas states, were concerned about Haaland&#8217;s history supporting initiatives like the Green New Deal. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., worried that the Biden administration&#8217;s climate agenda is like &#8220;taking a sledgehammer to Wyoming and other Western states&#8217; economies.&#8221;<p><\/p>\r\n\r\nRepublicans posed the sharpest questions during her confirmation hearing last week, and accounted for most of the \r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.senate.gov\/services\/files\/AA0764B0-51AD-4A86-8662-86444F89150B\">126-page list<\/a>\r\nof follow-up questions and answers.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\r\nSen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., asked Haaland a series of questions during \r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.senate.gov\/hearings\/2021\/2\/hearing-to-consider-nomination-of-the-honorable-debra-haaland-to-be-the-secretary-of-the-interior\">her hearing<\/a>\r\nthat &#8220;made clear that the priorities that she has line up with a lot of the priorities that he has for Arizona,&#8221; Rowland-Shea said.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nKelly voted Thursday to confirm Haaland. Rowland-Shea said she expects Arizona&#8217;s other senator, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, to also back the nomination, but Sinema&#8217;s office would only say Thursday that she &#8220;spoke with Rep. Haaland and is carefully considering her nomination.&#8221;<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\r\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_QA5AojlB3M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Indianz.Com Video: <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/02\/23\/im-ready-to-serve-deb-haaland-debforinterior\/>\u2018I\u2019m ready to serve\u2019: Deb Haaland #DebForInterior<\/a> <\/figcaption>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe next step in the confirmation process is a full senate vote in which Haaland only needs a simple majority of 51 votes. Even in an evenly divided Senate, Rowland-Shea said she does not expect Vice President Kamala Harris will be needed to break a tie.<p><\/p>\r\n&#8220;There&#8217;s not likely to be major barriers with the full Senate vote, along with Sen. Murkowski, (Maine Republican) Sen. Susan Collins has also made clear she will vote in support as well,&#8221; said Rowland-Shea, who expects all 50 Democrats to back the nomination.<p><\/p>\r\nCommittee staff did not respond to requests on when Manchin might bring the nomination up for a full Senate vote.<p><\/p>\r\n<STRONG>For more stories from Cronkite News, visit <A href=\"https:\/\/cronkitenews.azpbs.org\/?utm_source=referral&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=client\">cronkitenews.azpbs.org<\/A>.<\/STRONG>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<HR><EM>Note: This story originally <a href=\"https:\/\/cronkitenews.azpbs.org\/2021\/03\/04\/committee-vote-moves-haaland-one-step-closer-to-historic-interior-post\/\">appeared on Cronkite News<\/a>.  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