Morning Brief: Divided Senate panel advances Biden’s BLM nominee

The sharply divided Senate energy committee has advanced the nomination of Tracy Stone-Manning, President Joe Biden’s pick to run the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which will play a central role in the administration’s climate and economic review of the federal oil and gas drilling program. The committee at a July 22 business meeting deadlocked 10-10 on Stone-Manning’s nomination, though the support of Chairman Joe Manchin (D-WV) likely means that Democrats will be able to consider the nominee on the...