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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Asserts that the Biden administration failed to nominate a PHMSA administrator.
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