[CPEO-MEF] Boxer blocks Beehler nomination

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Senator Boxer Blocks Bush Nominee for EPA Inspector General

Environmental News Service
December 7, 2006

WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, has 
placed a hold on the nomination of Alex Beehler to be Inspector General 
of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Boxer placed a hold on the nomination after the committee voted to 
approve it on Wednesday. Beehler was nominated for the position by 
President George W. Bush earlier this year.

In blocking the nomination, Boxer prevented it from coming to the Senate 
floor during this short lame duck session of Congress.

Since she will chair the committee when the 110th Congress convenes in 
January with a Democratic majority, it is not likely that Beehler will 
get the job.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/dec2006/2006-12-07-09.asp

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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