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Democrats stand behind Biden public lands pick amid pushback

by Matthew Brown
| July 22, 2021 9:03 AM

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A U.S. Senate panel deadlocked Thursday on President Joe Biden’s pick to oversee vast government-owned lands in the West, as Democrats stood united behind a nominee whose credibility was assailed by Republicans over her links to a 1989 environmental sabotage case.

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