On the recordNovember 2, 2023
My amendment gives another member of the Biden administration's paid employees a chance for volunteerism and doing well for mankind. It reduces the salary of Deb Haaland, who is the Secretary of the Interior, to a dollar. She is currently making $221,400. She holds extreme land and energy views, like support for the Green New Deal and opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. We are being forced to buy from OPEC countries that hate America that are funding Hamas now, and that is what this lady was for, doing away with the Keystone XL pipeline. She has used the power of the Department of the Interior to implement her radical agenda at the expense of hardworking Americans. Under her leadership she has shut down pipelines, delayed federally mandated onshore and offshore leases, repealed commonsense regulations, shuttered mining projects, and much more with no regard for how these actions have and will continue to raise energy costs, eliminate American jobs, and harm our national security and increase reliance on foreign energy sources. We should not spend another dollar of taxpayer money funding her salary. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
