No one is above the law, unless it's a climate emergency...
Daily Caller (11/1/23) reports: "The Biden administration has found ways to appoint several officials to influential posts within the government after the Senate denied their confirmations earlier in President Joe Biden’s first term. The Senate failed to confirm Laura Daniel-Davis, Ann Carlson, Jeff Marootian and Neera Tanden, with Republicans generally citing their partisanship or radicalism, but the White House has found influential positions for them to assume within the government anyways. The administration has found ways to shoehorn these individuals into their current posts across the government by appointing Daniel-Davis and Carlson on an acting basis, while sticking Marootian and Tanden in positions that do not require a formal Senate confirmation process...Ann Carlson, formerly a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, serves as the acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). She has served in the post on an acting basis since September 2022, and Senate Republicans tanked her formal nomination for the agency’s top job in May 2023, primarily pointing to her past comments about utilizing higher energy costs as a launching pad for the green energy transition. However, Biden has kept her in place despite the rejection and withdrawal of her nomination, thereby circumventing Senate approval. Under Carlson’s leadership, the agency unveiled a proposed update to the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) standards in July which would impose stiff fines on auto manufacturers that fail to comply with NHTSA’s future fuel economy standards. The proposal amounts to a de facto electric vehicle mandate, Dan Kish, a senior fellow for the Institute for Energy Research, told the DCNF at the time."
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