Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise to speak about the need to protect the Senate's constitutional authority to advise and consent on Presidential nominations. With his appointment of multiple acting officials to perform senior roles that would, otherwise, require confirmation by this body, President Biden is deliberately circumventing the Senate and the nomination process. In some instances, these are vacancies of President Biden's own making. He has routinely nominated individuals with no relevant experience to key safety positions. When threatened with the rejection of these unqualified nominees, President Biden simply withdraws their names from consideration and, instead, installs them in Senate-confirmed positions in an acting capacity. Julie Su's tenure as the head of the Department of Labor is a notable example. The recently reported elevation of Laura Daniel-Davis to Acting Deputy Secretary at the Department of the Interior is another. But I speak today about yet another case of this gamesmanship at a key safety Agency where a rejected nominee has been given the reins-- the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA. Earlier this year, President Biden nominated Ann Carlson to be the administrator of NHTSA. She is an environmental law professor who has written for decades about how unelected bureaucrats should make major changes to American society in the name of combating global warming. But NHTSA is a safety Agency whose mission it is to make American roads safer.…”