Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), the chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, on Friday said he supports the committee's ranking member Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), to be the new Interior Secretary, saying he was better than other candidates because “He doesn't carry the legal baggage or conflicts.”
David Bernhardt is currently serving as acting secretary.
Grijalva says that while he and Bishop don't always see eye to eye, he backs Bishop because he thinks that Bishop is “ethical.”
“His philosophy and ours obviously don't match up,” Grijalva said to The Hill. “But, I have to put a but in there ... he's ethical. And he doesn't carry the legal baggage or conflicts — the pretty obvious conflicts others have.”
The lawmaker said those conflicts clearly existed in former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who departed the agency Jan. 2 amid multiple ethics investigations, and in Bernhardt. Bernhardt is a former energy lobbyist. He and Bishop, who chaired the House Natural Resources Committee for the past eight years, are the reported frontrunners to take over for Zinke...
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Maybe he just wants Bishop off the Committee and out of Congress. On the other hand, Bishop was willing to permanently reauthorize the LWCF.
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