skippy the bush kangaroo

Thursday, November 01, 2007

truman was "giv'm h**l" harry

reid is more "go to h**l" harry.

for the past six months, oregon senator ron wyden has held up senate confirmation of lyle laverty as assistant interior secretary for fish, wildlife and parks.

wyden, it seems, was upset that a member of the interior department's fish and wildlife services had leaked internal documents to industry leaders who opposed some of the fws's activities and that later showed up in lawsuits against the department. the employee, julie macdonald, who had no training or experience in natural sciences also forced fws scientists to "alter findings, often with no scientific basis".

..according to a former director of the endangered species program at the department of fish and wildlife, mcdonald "harassed, bullied, and insulted employees" of the es program "to ignore good science" and consistently rejected staff recommendations to classify plants and animals as endangered under the endagered species act.

..wyden was holding up the nomination of laverty until he could get an agreement from the bush administration not to engage in similar transgressions.

..wyden's hold ended last week when laverty was confirmed on a voice vote, called by senator reid while wyden was away from dc to celebrate the birth of his twins. - salvador's great orange diary

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posted by Cookie Jill at 12:24 AM |

2 Comments:

somebody owns harry reid's nuts, and it isn't harry reid.
commented by Anonymous whig, 2:13 AM PDT  
I really just give up. I'm writing in Al Gore for President. I might even write him in for Town Super of Highways next week.
commented by Blogger Mister Grimm, 9:15 AM PDT  

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