The Senate Interior Committee held a hearing yesterday to examine the Biden administration’s fiscal year 2023 budget request for the Department of the Interior. The committee has posted video of the hearing here.
The hearing presented an opportune moment for Interior Secretary Deborah Haaland to let her light shine and she did not disappoint. In the clip below Secretary Haaland avoids answering the question whether gas prices are too high.
WATCH: Biden Interior Secretary Deb Haaland REFUSES to answer if gas prices are too high pic.twitter.com/NrWqGxnp7U
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Staff anxiously placed notes in front of Haaland with the all-purpose answer to brain teasers seeking to elicit that which cannot be said. The all-purpose answer is “We’ll get back to you on that.” She appears to be a tad slow on the uptake.
WATCH: Democrat staffers furiously scribble notes for Biden Interior Secretary Deb Haaland as she struggles to get through her Senate testimony pic.twitter.com/pT4a1VO8Xx
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Senator Manchin is the chairman of the Interior Committee. He posed a question that stumped Haaland as well.
Biden Interior Secretary Deb Haaland struggles to explain a memo from HER department calling for the shut down of new oil leases.
“I am sorry, and am sitting in this hearing and not ………” pic.twitter.com/bLypsaAt8H
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There was one more brain teaser for Haaland before the hearing was adjourned. She responded with an answer akin to Judge Jackson’s screwball response to Senator Blackburn’s “What is a woman?” question in Jackson’s March confirmation hearing. Judge Jackson — she’s not a biologist. Secretary Haaland — she’s not an economist. She won’t be getting back to Senator Cassidy on this one.
Q: “Is it more environmentally friendly to develop and produce oil and gas” in the U.S. or in foreign countries, like Venezuela?
Biden Interior Secretary: “I’m not an economist” pic.twitter.com/SrbsceaeO5
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One more highlight from the Wall Street Journal’s emailed Capital Journal news roundup this morning: “The Biden administration will propose a five-year plan for offshore oil-and-gas drilling by June 30, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said Thursday at a congressional hearing, but she declined to say if the plan would include any new lease sales…”
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