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Senator's hold on Interior vote goes unheeded
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| Contributor | WesternDem |
| Last Edited | WesternDem Oct 31, 2007 11:23pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Denver Post |
| News Date | Thursday, November 1, 2007 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Former Colorado parks director Lyle Laverty's confirmation to a top post in the U.S. Interior Department was pushed through the Senate on Monday while a member blocking the vote was home tending to his wife and newborn twins.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., for seven months had opposed Laverty's confirmation as assistant secretary for fish and wildlife and parks, demanding that Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne address ethical lapses within the department.
On Friday, Wyden's wife gave birth to twins, and the senator was in Oregon on paternity leave Monday when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., scheduled the vote.
"I am fuming," said Scott Silver, co-founder of Wild Wilderness, an Oregon forest advocacy group. "If an effort was made to go around Wyden, knowing that he was with his wife in the hospital just becoming a father of twins, that is truly shameful."
Wyden publicly placed a hold on Laverty's nomination days after it was announced by President Bush in March.
Wyden's office was notified Monday of the call for a vote, "and it was clear that Sen. Wyden had not lifted the hold," said his chief of staff, Josh Kardon. |
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