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NORTHEY'S NOMINATION BEING HELD UP BY SEN. TED CRUZ
Oct. 26, 2017
Politico reports:
Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee on Wednesday put a hold on the nomination of Bill Northey to a senior USDA post. Northey had been expected to breeze through the chamber.
According to a spokesman for Lee, the senator had lifted his hold by Wednesday afternoon, but a Republican Senate aide said Cruz's hold was still on as of late afternoon.
Payback at work?
Northey's name had moved out of the Senate Agriculture Committee by voice vote, but multiple sources in the refining industry told ME that the holdup was a "reaction" to the way Iowa Republican Sens. Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley intensely pressured EPA into protecting Renewable Fuel Standard volume requirements.
"It's about time someone stood up to the kind of extortion we have seen coming from some of the Midwestern senators when the RFS is at issue," said one refining industry source.
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