{"id":955080,"date":"2021-11-02T18:58:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T22:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=955080"},"modified":"2021-11-02T18:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T22:58:50","slug":"exclusive-republicans-demand-interior-secretarys-meeting-schedules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-republicans-demand-interior-secretarys-meeting-schedules\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Republicans Demand Interior Secretary\u2019s Meeting Schedules"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-republicans-demand-interior-secretarys-meeting-schedules%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=955080&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"49.982198486871\">\n<p>Two leading Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Senate are demanding that Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland provide a schedule of the meetings that she has conducted since her March confirmation to the office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe principles of transparency transcend administrations, and the American people deserve to know who is influencing government leaders\u2019 decision-making,\u201d Arkansas Rep. Bruce Westerman, the ranking member on the House Natural Resources Committee, and Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the ranking member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, wrote to Haaland in a letter, obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>Citing a bipartisan record of disclosures under the Obama and Trump administrations, Westerman and Barrasso question whether or not Haaland\u2019s schedule is \u201cbeing deliberately withheld.\u201d They argue that without the schedules, Congress is unable to conduct oversight of&nbsp; \u201cmisguided policies, like locking up access to public lands, limiting water supplies to farmers and communities, and hampering domestic energy and mineral production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransparency from our leaders is absolutely essential. If we don\u2019t know how and with whom Secretary Haaland spends her official time, we have no way of holding her accountable to the promises she made before she took office. I sincerely hope she follows the example of the previous two administrations and publicizes these important calendars,\u201d Westerman told the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>Haaland, a New Mexico Democrat, was confirmed to helm DOI over Republican objections due to her stances on oil and natural gas drilling. Four Senate Republicans, Maine\u2019s Susan Collins, South Carolina\u2019s Lindsey Graham and Alaska\u2019s Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, joined with 47 Democrats in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/15\/deb-haaland-confirmed-secretary-of-interior\/\">voting<\/a> for Haaland. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/23\/deb-haaland-john-barrasso-department-interior-keystone-pipeline\/\">(RELATED: GOP Senator Grills Biden Interior Nominee On Oil And Natural Gas Industry: \u2018Why Not Just Let These Workers Keep Their Jobs?\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republicans have frequently complained about a lack of transparency from the Biden administration. They have cited officials\u2019 ignored <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/16\/republicans-take-education-fight-to-voters-with-congress-slow-to-act\/\">requests<\/a> for documents and briefings, as well as a lack of media <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/03\/president-joe-biden-press-conference-solo\/\">access<\/a> to the president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the letter here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 2021-11-03 Westerman Barrasso to Haaland (DOI) Re Calendars on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/536764401\/2021-11-03-Westerman-Barrasso-to-Haaland-DOI-Re-Calendars#from_embed\">2021-11-03 Westerman Barras\u2026<\/a> by <a title=\"View Michael Ginsberg&#039;s profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/548087574\/Michael-Ginsberg#from_embed\">Michael Ginsberg<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two leading Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Senate are demanding that Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland provide a schedule of the meetings that she &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}