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Ted Cruz: “The Biden administration didn't nominate anyone to be the…”

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Senate Hearing on Pipeline Safety and PHMSA Reauthorization with Ted Cruz

Published | Video Starts at 01:11

So what was the previous administration's policy on pipeline safety? One maxim of politics is is that personnel is policy. If that's the case, then The Biden administration didn't nominate anyone to be the PHMSA administrator. administrator. That's right. It's not that they nominated someone who withdrew and then withdrew that person. They simply never bothered to nominate any human being to lead the pipeline safety agency. (01:11–01:20)

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