Politics

Council delegates and others arrive Monday morning, July 15, 2019, at the summer session of the Navajo Nation Council in Window Rock. See the photo.

The McKinley County and San Juan County commissions have made their choices of whom they want to see replace the late Sen. John Pinto, and neither county nominated his granddaughter.

The Law and Order Committee decided it wasn’t ready to hear member Edmund Yazzie’s bill prohibiting elected officials from consuming alcohol while on travel.

The Navajo Nation Council unanimously approved an emergency bill requesting New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham to select a Navajo to replace the late Sen. John Pinto.

The three branch chiefs — President Jonathan Nez, Speaker Seth Damon and Chief Justice JoAnn Jayne — presented their budget agreement of $167 million to the Budget and Finance Committee Monday.