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STATEMENT OF KRISTIN ROWE-FINKBEINER, Executive Director and CEO, Momsrising.org, On the Senate Committee Vote on Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Nominee Gina McCarthy

May 9, 2013

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

MomsRising.org Leader Urges Committee Vote on McCarthy Nomination
“It is shameful that a handful of senators are trying to hold up Gina McCarthy’s nomination to the post of EPA Administrator by boycotting the vote to move her confirmation forward. McCarthy is highly qualified to serve in this important post. She has 25 years of experience working on environmental issues and a history or bipartisanship. She has also been instrumental in many of the EPA’s most important clean air victories.
 
“McCarthy answered more questions than any nominee in history in the process of her hearings – more than 1,000. Her answers were well-thought out and honest. It is one thing to oppose this nominee because one disagrees with her positions; it is another thing entirely to block a committee vote for the sake of political theater.
 
“This kind of partisan obstruction must end. The business of government is too important and affects too many people to be held hostage by people who refuse to recognize the importance of clean water, clean air and safe environments in which to raise our children.
 
“In the strongest possible way, MomsRising.org calls on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to vote on McCarthy’s nomination so that the full Senate can consider her appointment.”
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.