the Senate will vote on cloture on the nomination of Andrew Wheeler to be the Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The Deputy Administrator is critical in developing and implementing policies that fulfill the EPA's mission of protecting America's water, land, air, and communities. He is the right person for the job. He has spent 25 years working in environmental policy. In that time, he has served as a career employee of the EPA; a staff director on the Hill for the committee I now chair, the Environment and Public Works Committee; and, most recently, as a consultant in the energy policy space. Andrew Wheeler is well qualified to fill this critically important job. I urge all Senators to support the nomination. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Toomey). The Senator from Delaware.
On the recordApril 12, 2018
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