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On the recordApril 27, 2021
we are about to vote cloture on Janet McCabe, the No. 2 at the EPA, and I vehemently oppose her nomination to this position. She is the architect of the Clean Power Plan that basically racked my economy in West Virginia, and she has not backed down from that in her testimony. She is very supportive of that plan and even more. Her boss at the EPA at the time was Gina McCarthy. Guess where she is now--in the White House. She, again, will be Janet McCabe's boss in the White House, dictating from there. During her time at the EPA before, she didn't listen, she wouldn't come to West Virginia, and she basically showed very little interest in what happens to the people most deeply affected by the policies that she put forward. So given her past actions and present statements, I cannot support someone who would work to destroy a State's economy, such as ours was destroyed, and our communities and their livelihoods. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Delaware.
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Shelley Moore Capito
Republican · West Virginia

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