Gibbs Rips Landrieu Budget Nominee Hold
The Hill reports:
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Thursday called Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-La.) procedural hold on President Obama's nominee for budget director “sad and outrageous.”
Gibbs said it is a "sad day" when someone is held up when they have received bipartisan support in both the Senate Budget and Homeland Security panels.
He added it is "sad and outrageous" that Landrieu is holding up Jacob Lew's nomination to be head of the White House Office of Management and Budget "for something that is completely unrelated to him."
The comments from Gibbs turn up the heat on an unusual battle between a Democratic senator and the White House.
Landrieu is blocking Senate confirmation of his nomination until a post-election lame-duck session in order to keep pressure on the Obama administration to lift or relax a deepwater oil and gas drilling moratorium and speed up shallow water drilling permits that are not officially part of the ban.
She told reporters in the Capitol Building Wednesday that she will “continue to work in good faith with this administration over the next couple of weeks to see what we can do.”
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