{"id":4652,"date":"2025-01-09T02:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T02:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/heinrich-urges-lee-to-delay-hearing-for-trumps-energy-nominee\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T02:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T02:19:05","slug":"heinrich-urges-lee-to-delay-hearing-for-trumps-energy-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/heinrich-urges-lee-to-delay-hearing-for-trumps-energy-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"Heinrich urges Lee to delay hearing for Trump’s Energy nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate Energy and Natural Resources ranking member Martin Heinrich<\/a> is warning Chair Mike Lee<\/a> to wait to schedule a confirmation hearing for Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick for Energy secretary, until he receives all relevant paperwork.<\/p>\n

Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat, sent a letter to Lee on Wednesday that urged the Utah Republican to follow the committee\u2019s \u201clongstanding precedence and take seriously your constitutional responsibilities\u201d by sharing final FBI background checks, financial disclosures and an ethics agreement before issuing a notice for a hearing for Wright, the CEO of fracking services company Liberty Energy.<\/p>\n

Blue Light News previously reported Republicans are planning to hold a hearing for Wright<\/a> on Jan. 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe American people deserve transparency on the individuals nominated to serve them in the incoming administration,\u201d Heinrich said in a letter to Lee<\/a> shared exclusively with Blue Light News. \u201cAs members of the U.S. Senate, you and I have a solemn obligation to fulfill our constitutional duties to advise and consent to these nominees. That cannot happen without the information necessary to properly consider these nominees.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heinrich\u2019s protests come after Lee has moved to schedule a Jan. 14 hearing<\/a> for Interior secretary nominee North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum over the objections of panel Democrats. Heinich said Wednesday that he had not yet received Burgum\u2019s paperwork either.<\/p>\n

In a statement earlier Wednesday, Lee said Burgum submitted his paperwork to the Office of Government Ethics last week and accused Heinrich of seeking to delay the North Dakota governor’s hearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have made every effort to work with our Democratic colleagues, but we won\u2019t give in to delays that undermine the American people\u2019s mandate,\u201d Lee said. \u201cIt\u2019s time to move forward and focus on solutions that will unleash America\u2019s full energy potential, and I hope Democrats will work with us to deliver results for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee told reporters<\/a> he expects to receive Burgum’s paperwork back from the ethics office before the hearing. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the status of Wright’s paperwork.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senate Energy and Natural Resources ranking member Martin Heinrich is warning Chair Mike Lee to wait to schedule a confirmation hearing for Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick for Energy secretary, until he receives all relevant paperwork. Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat, sent a letter to Lee on Wednesday that urged the Utah Republican to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}