According to reports by the Associated Press hitting the Internet this evening, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) is threatening to block the confirmation of an EPA nominee unless the Senator gets some answers:
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., indicated she might block one of the nominees unless she gets details on an EPA list of 103 Superfund sites where the agency has suggested human exposure is possible. She said she wants the sites listed in order of health hazard, along with details on cleanup costs and how many children live nearby.
"All I've gotten from EPA is incomplete information," Boxer told Susan Bodine," the nominee for assistant administrator for the office of solid waste and emergency response, which includes the Superfund program.
I confess that I don't get it-- how does blocking a needed nominee (I assume the post that Ms. Bodine is taking is presently vacant) help anything? Keeping the post vacant might satisfy Senator Boxer's pique; but it would seem that if EPA is behind the informational curve the agency would need more, not less, senior staff to give direction. Perhaps someone out there more familiar with Senate procedures than I am can educate me as to how Senator Boxer's attitude is constructive.
The same AP story labels Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) as also threatening to obstruct EPA senior staff nominations. This obstructionist label may not be fair--the Senator's remarks quoted by the AP seem to indicate that he is not attempting to hold up any present nominees and is merely warning the EPA that he may adopt tougher tactics in the future if he cannot get access to information he is requesting. Specifically,
"I'm not interested in holding any of your nominations hostage," Obama said at a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on nominees for EPA deputy administrator and to head the agency's enforcement and solid waste divisions.
"But if you get any resistance from your future boss, the administrator, about this, you should let him know I'm deeply concerned about this and willing to gum up the works a little bit until I get a clear response," he told the nominees.
It should be noted that Senator Obama's specific complaint is that EPA has not issued certain lead-based paint regulations which the Senator contends were supposed to be issued in 1996--during the first term in office of President Clinton. Thus, EPA's delay is at least one of the few bipartisan things occurring in Washington these days!
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