https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/22/gop-resistance-deb-haaland-470979 ‘She became an easy target’: GOP opposition to Haaland rankles Native Americans Her supporters say she’s facing a level of criticism above and beyond the normal fiery Washington political rhetoric. Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, has been a sharp critic of fossil fuel development, a stance that has made her nomination among the more contentious of Biden’s picks. And she may also face tough questioning from the Democratic chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Sen. Joe Manchin, who is the most pro-fossil fuel Democrat and whose opposition may have scuttled another Biden nominee, Neera Tanden.
Not going to earn your pay-to-post crumbs if you post links to highlight gop resistance to the appointment but then quote narrative about Joe Manchin- a Democrat- and his opposition or footdragging. Might need to up your game a little. You know in a post-trump environment it is harder to get your paid posts in. Not going to get that extra potato in your rations this month.
bye felicia https://apnews.com/article/neera-tanden-withdraws-nomination-1f9245ff58e11533c16d7b3eff11db46 Budget nominee Tanden withdraws nomination amid opposition WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, has withdrawn her nomination after she faced opposition from key Democratic and Republican senators for her controversial tweets. Her withdrawal marks the first high-profile defeat of one of Biden’s nominees. Thirteen of the 23 Cabinet nominees requiring Senate approval have been confirmed, most with strong bipartisan support. “Unfortunately, it now seems clear that there is no path forward to gain confirmation, and I do not want continued consideration of my nomination to be a distraction from your other priorities,” Tanden wrote in a letter to Biden. The president, in a statement, said he has “utmost respect for her record of accomplishment, her experience and her counsel” and pledged to find her another role in his administration.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...e-taken-nearly-10-million-big-pharma-analysis GOP Senators Opposed to Becerra for HHS Have Taken Nearly $10 Million From Big Pharma: Analysis "While Xavier Becerra has spent his career taking on the pharmaceutical industry for their corrupt price gouging, Senate Republicans have spent their political careers lining their pockets with millions of dollars from Big Pharma." Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Id.) "has accepted over $1.8 million from the health sector throughout his career, including over $616,000 from Big Pharma. Crapo also raked in contributions from the healthcare and financial sectors as he was poised to become the Committee chairman at the end of last year," according to Accountable's report. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) "has accepted over $3.7 million from the health sector throughout his career, including nearly $1 million from Big Pharma." Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) "has accepted over $1.7 million from the health sector throughout his career, including over $1 million from Big Pharma. Cornyn said the quiet part out loud when he brought up concerns with Becerra's lack of ties to the pharmaceutical industry, implicitly admitting he'd prefer a nominee in the pocket of Big Pharma." Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) "has accepted over $4.8 million from the health sector throughout his career, including $1.5 million from Big Pharma." Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) "has accepted over $5.1 million from the health sector throughout his career, including over $736,000 from Big Pharma." Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) "has accepted over $2.7 million from the health sector throughout his career, including over $651,000 from Big Pharma." Despite Wednesday's evenly split vote—which made Becerra the first of Biden's Cabinet nominees not to be favorably approved out of committee—his confirmation is not doomed. Once Democrats introduce "a motion to discharge his nomination and hold an additional four hours of debate," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) can "bring the nomination up for a full Senate vote," Politico reported.
That's a bullshit biased way of laying out the data. Pharma split almost 50/50 right down the middle on support for republicans and dems in 2020 - up majorly for dems. You can plow into that data if you want make the case that the dems are in the hip pocket of big pharma but I suspect that you do not.
There is no shortage of future cabinet members to advise the President on how to run the country to achieve the Democratic Party dreams. https://www.npr.org/2021/03/08/9749...elans-given-protected-status-in-united-states
big tech lobbies hate her... washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/09/lina-khan-biden-ftc/ Biden to nominate Big Tech critic Lina Khan to Federal Trade Commission Khan emerged as a prominent antitrust scholar after publishing a 2017 paper exploring Amazon’s power SAN FRANCISCO — One of the most prominent antitrust scholars to urge government to reexamine the way Big Tech’s power is regulated is being tapped to join the Federal Trade Commission. Lina Khan, perhaps best known for her 2017 paper “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” will be nominated to the agency charged in part with regulating monopoly power, a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity told The Washington Post. Khan’s nomination has not been officially announced. The Technology 202: One of Silicon Valley's top challengers is up for a key Justice Department position Khan first emerged on the antitrust scene as a 28-year-old Yale law student, with her searing 24,000-word article on why U.S. antitrust law isn’t equipped to deal with tech giants such as Amazon and their modern version of power. Khan is the latest Big Tech critic that the Biden administration has tapped to join the administration, setting up a likely hard-line stance against the powerful industry. Tim Wu, who has been critical of the industry, will work on competition and technology policy on the National Economic Council, and Vanita Gupta, who has advocated for civil rights change in Big Tech, faced Congress on Tuesday for a role as associate attorney general at the Justice Department. Biden’s nomination of Khan is also notable because Jay Carney, who was previously Biden’s vice presidential communications director, and then the press secretary for President Barack Obama, is Amazon’s senior vice president of global corporate affairs. In her 2017 paper, Khan presented a way to look at antitrust that went beyond examining just near-term effects on consumer pricing, which has been a cornerstone of American antitrust policy interpretation for decades. She showed how Amazon was controlling competitors at little cost to itself — seemingly benefiting consumers in the near term, but also causing far-reaching ripples through the rest of the industry. “The current market is not always a good indication of competitive harm,” Khan told The Post in 2017. “They have to ask what the future market will look like.” The White House and Khan did not respond to requests for comment. The news of Khan’s nomination was first reported by Politico. Khan has had a meteoric rise from a law student with an antitrust paper that essentially went viral — no small feat with scholarly work — to now serving as an associate professor at Columbia Law School, focusing on antitrust law and anti-monopoly tradition, according to her bio. She previously worked as a legal adviser to FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra and worked with Rep. David N. Cicilline (D-R.I.) as counsel for the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee. There, she helped lead the House investigation into anti-competitive behavior from Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. The panel’s report, released in October, found that the tech giants relied on harmful means to rise to and solidify their dominance in their respective niches. House investigation faults Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google for engaging in anti-competitive monopoly tactics Khan’s theories are also sometimes controversial within the antitrust scholarly community, though many scholars have heralded them as the start of a new wave of thinking. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonpartisan organization that receives funding from many tech giants including Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, said Tuesday that Khan’s theories will harm U.S. companies and referred to them as “hipster antitrust,” a term critics have used for years to describe Khan’s work. “Khan’s antitrust populism threatens to derail traditional enforcement of antitrust laws as an engine for enhancing consumer benefits and spurring innovation,” the organization’s director of antitrust and innovation policy, Aurelien Portuese, said in a statement. Powerful tech companies have come under increased governmental scrutiny in recent years. The CEOs of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple were grilled by Congress over their far-reaching market power last summer. The Justice Department sued Google alleging multiple violations of antitrust law in October, and the FTC and dozens of state attorneys general filed antitrust suits against Facebook in December. The chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter are expected to appear before Congress again later this month. Public Citizen, an organization that advocates against corporate power, praised the decision to appoint Khan in a statement, calling it “a hopeful sign that the Biden administration intends to take a more aggressive approach to antitrust enforcement.” Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, an organization that often advocates for tech regulations, said Khan could make the FTC relevant again after decades of the agency falling behind on antitrust issues. “This is a vital nomination that can help bring the FTC back from the morass it has created for decades,” he said in an email.
Booby prize for the boob. The big winner will be the skin color person they move into his slot on the appeals court, and then on up on to the supreme court later. And once again, Merrick takes it up the bobo. Most conservatives consider this a win or at least the best choice among the losers being considered. He is a lefty but if it had not been for the dems being stuck on stupid about Garland, they had ten other far, far left loons that they want. Holder, Gonzales, Barr, Lynch. AG's are forgotten the day they leave office compared to Supreme Court Justices. Booby prize.