Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Committee schedules Zinke nomination vote
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has rescheduled a confirmation hearing on Congressman Ryan Zinke, President Donald Trump’s nomination for secretary of the Interior, and Rick Perry, the energy secretary nominee.
The business meeting is set for 9:30 Tuesday in the Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.
The hearing was announced Wednesday.
On Monday, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairwoman of the committee, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., the committee’s ranking Democrat, announced the postponement of a Tuesday business meeting until further notice. A vote on Zinke’s and Perry’s confirmation were scheduled.
Later, Murkowski’s office said the hearing was postponed due to a miscommunication between her and Cantwell...more
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