The Virginia Senate rejected Gov. Glenn Youngkin's picks for the Parole Board on Thursday, extending a bitter tit-for-tat that began when the chamber rejected a Trump EPA chief for the Republican governor's Cabinet.
In a party-line 21-to-19 vote, the Democratic-controlled Senate rejected four Youngkin appointees to the parole board and a single nominee to the state Safety and Health Codes Board.
Democrats acknowledged that the move was payback for the increasingly hardball tactics Youngkin and the Republican-led House have employed since the Senate rejected one of the governor’s Cabinet picks — , a former coal lobbyist who led a rollback of Obama-era environmental regulations as President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency chief.Those tactics included a threat last month to unseat more than 1,000 Democratic appointees from state regulatory and governing boards. Republicans largely backed down, removing a far smaller number — 11 — but the move still allows Youngkin to increase his influence on the Virginia Board of Education and other key boards.
Senate Majority Leader Richard L. Saslaw blamed the House for seeking more and more revenge for Wheeler, whose service for Trump gave Democrats what they said were sincere concerns about his commitment to the environment. The Senate approved the rest of Youngkin’s Cabinet.Advertisement Ever since the Senate rejected Wheeler for secretary of natural and historic resources last month, the House and Youngkin have sought payback. They started by holding up the reappointment of a State Corporation Commission judge favored by Democrats and blocking elections for two state Supreme Court justices.
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