Trump Pick For Interior Secretary Will Reshuffle House GOP Leadership

[NRaleighLiberal]

Source: Talking Points Memo from a Wall Street Journal src

By MATT SHUHAM Published DECEMBER 9, 2016, 2:03 PM EDT

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to pick Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) to lead the Department of the Interior, unnamed sources told Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and others Friday.

McMorris Rodgers is a reliable advocate for increased access to oil and gas drilling on millions of acres of federally owned land, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Department of the Interior also administers programs relating to Native American tribes. Among McMorris Rodgers’ likely priorities will be attempting to meet Trump’s repeated campaign promise to re-energize coal production in the U.S., despite falling prices for coal worldwide.

She has been critical of efforts from the Obama administration to govern carbon emissions. The League of Conservation Voters gave her a zero on its recent scorecard of congressional environmental records, according to Reuters.

As House GOP Conference Chair, the Washington congresswoman is the fourth-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cathy-mcmorris-rodgers-interior-secretary-conference-chair

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Didn't she give one of the very worst state of the union rebuttals? Ugh!

[bucolic_frolic]

1. It's an ideological purge worthy of Josef Stalin

Trump is Satan

[airplaneman]

4. I agree with ideological purge.

Environmentalists
Scientist
Liberals
And he is going to try and do it everywhere.
-Airplane

[agalisgv]

2. The news is almost too hard to watch

Seriously.

[RobinA]

3. Glad I Saw Yellowstone

before Exxon took it over.

[wordpix]

5. MSNBC Breaking: Trump Will Scrap Env. Laws, Increase Fossil Fuel Developmt

and other scary things

[Sunlei]

6. figures he'd pick the republican with the biggest 'lying in government' record, a cruel woman.

[potone]

7. This reminds me...

of Reagan's choice of James Watt as Secretary of the Interior. He thought that we shouldn't worry about preserving public lands because the second coming of Jesus was going to happen soon. Well, we're still waiting.

[Sunlei]

8. she's perfect for the DOI 'good old boys' club to snooker

[GoCubsGo]

9. I was wondering which Dregs of the Earth he was going to pick for DOI.

Could be worse, I guess.