{"id":4801,"date":"2017-10-25T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/whitehouse-merkley-call-on-dourson-to-address-key-ethics-concerns-ahead-of-committee-vote\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:08:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:08:37","slug":"whitehouse-merkley-call-on-dourson-to-address-key-ethics-concerns-ahead-of-committee-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/whitehouse-merkley-call-on-dourson-to-address-key-ethics-concerns-ahead-of-committee-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitehouse y Merkley piden a Dourson que aborde preocupaciones \u00e9ticas clave antes de la votaci\u00f3n del comit\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Washington DC<\/i> \u2013 Hoy, los senadores Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) y Jeff Merkley (D-OR) pidieron al elegido del presidente Donald Trump para encabezar la oficina de contaminaci\u00f3n t\u00f3xica de la Agencia de Protecci\u00f3n Ambiental que explique si est\u00e1 obedeciendo las reglas federales de \u00e9tica, ya que ya comenz\u00f3 a trabajar en el agencia. Whitehouse y Merkley pidieron que la respuesta de Michael Dourson aborde como m\u00ednimo los mismos puntos que Susan Bodine, la candidata del presidente para dirigir la oficina de cumplimiento de la EPA, hizo en su carta reciente, que los senadores publicaron junto con su declaraci\u00f3n.<u5_p><\/u5_p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAunque la nominaci\u00f3n del Dr. Dourson a\u00fan tiene que salir del Comit\u00e9 de Medio Ambiente y Obras P\u00fablicas, la EPA de Scott Pruitt admiti\u00f3 la semana pasada que el Dr. Dourson est\u00e1 instalado en la agencia como &#039;asesor del administrador&#039;\u201d, dijeron los Senadores. \u201cEso significa que tiene mucho trabajo por hacer para convencernos de que est\u00e1 cumpliendo con la ley federal y una amplia gama de reglas \u00e9ticas federales. Si bien todav\u00eda creemos que el arreglo de Susan Bodine plantea serias dudas sobre el respeto de la Administraci\u00f3n Trump por el proceso de asesoramiento y consentimiento, al menos nos dio los conceptos b\u00e1sicos en su respuesta. Ahora el Dr. Dourson necesita hacer lo mismo\u201d. <u5_p><\/u5_p><\/p>\n<p>Whitehouse y Merkley le piden a Dourson que haga los mismos compromisos que hizo Bodine en su carta a los senadores. En su respuesta, Bodine indic\u00f3 que ella:<u5_p><\/u5_p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>tiene una descripci\u00f3n de trabajo por escrito (que ella proporcion\u00f3 a los Senadores);<u5_p><\/u5_p><\/li>\n<li>no est\u00e1 supervisando a nadie;<u5_p><\/u5_p><\/li>\n<li>no se le ha delegado ninguna autoridad oficial; <u5_p><\/u5_p><\/li>\n<li>no est\u00e1 desempe\u00f1ando las funciones b\u00e1sicas o las autoridades del trabajo para el que ha sido nominada;<u5_p><\/u5_p><\/li>\n<li>respetar\u00e1 el convenio de \u00e9tica para el cargo al que ha sido nominada;<u5_p><\/u5_p><\/li>\n<li>ha firmado el compromiso de \u00e9tica de la administraci\u00f3n Trump; y<u5_p><\/u5_p><\/li>\n<li>est\u00e1 utilizando una cuenta de correo electr\u00f3nico oficial.&nbsp; <u5_p><\/u5_p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ayer, Whitehouse y Merkley se unieron a 10 miembros del Comit\u00e9 Senatorial de Medio Ambiente y Obras P\u00fablicas en <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.senate.gov\/download\/dourson-letter-on-adviser-status\">exigiendo una explicaci\u00f3n completa<\/a> del papel de Dourson en la EPA. El Comit\u00e9 de Medio Ambiente y Obras P\u00fablicas votar\u00e1 sobre la nominaci\u00f3n de Dourson el mi\u00e9rcoles.<u5_p><\/u5_p><\/p>\n<p><b>Una copia de la respuesta de Bodine a los Senadores est\u00e1 disponible. <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.senate.gov\/download\/bodine-response-to-whitehouse-merkley-letter\"><b>aqu\u00ed<\/b><\/a><b>.<u5_p><\/u5_p><\/b><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC &ndash; Today, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) called on President Donald Trump&rsquo;s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency&rsquo;s toxic pollution office to explain whether he is obeying federal ethics rules, having already started work at the agency.&nbsp; Whitehouse and Merkley called for Michael Dourson&rsquo;s response to address at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Whitehouse, Merkley Call on Dourson to Address Key Ethics Concerns Ahead of Committee Vote - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/whitehouse-merkley-call-on-dourson-to-address-key-ethics-concerns-ahead-of-committee-vote\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Whitehouse, Merkley Call on Dourson to Address Key Ethics Concerns Ahead of Committee Vote - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington, DC &ndash; 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