The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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Cathy McMorris Rodgers is Trump’s nominee for Interior, according to sources:

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-trump-said-to-pick-mcmorriss-rodgers-1481305993-htmlstory.html

Donald Trump has chosen Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), a member of the GOP congressional leadership and a strident advocate for increased oil and gas drilling on federal lands, to head the Interior Department, according to multiple news reports.

McMorris Rodgers, the highest ranking Republican woman in the House of Representatives, would take the helm of a 70,000-person agency that manages hundreds of millions of acres of federal lands, including the National Parks system. She would be charged with implementing Trump’s plan to aggressively roll back many of the environmental restrictions the Obama administration has placed on federal lands, which the president-elect wants to open up for substantially more drilling and mining.

At issue are the Arctic and Atlantic waters that the Obama administration excluded from future drilling leases.

p.s. McMorris Rodgers gave the Republican rebuttal to Obama’s 2014 State of the Union address.