Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is expected to vote this week on a short-term funding bill to prevent a government shutdown – but the process could hit a roadblock in the form of Sen. can. Allows projects.
Schumer (D-NY) is likely to call for a vote on the stopgap funding bill — known as an ongoing resolution — as soon as the Senate reopens on Tuesday to halt the government shutdown until Friday when the fiscal year ends. calls from. He introduced a House bill last week that would fund the government by December 16.
Along with the $13.7 billion in military aid for Ukraine it fights with the Russian military, as well as Schumer’s request for $290 million to fight “rainbow fentanyl” being smuggled into the country, Schumer also passed. -Pass is adamant about including ManChain’s permit reforms in the package. ,
But in a 50-50 split chamber, where the majority leader would need 60 votes to get around an expected filibuster, Republicans and some progressive Democrats are shying away from backing Manchin’s bill.
Progressives believe it gives energy companies too much, and Republicans are in no hurry to reward liberal West Virginia Democrats for backing President Biden’s $740 billion. Inflation Reduction Act which was passed last month.
Further complicating the situation is that Manchin’s West Virginia ally, GOP Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, has introduced a separate proposal for the permitting process, which Republicans have rallied around.
When asked in an interview on Sunday why Republicans should vote for his legislation, Munchkin said “it’s not about me”.
“My Republican friends, I’ve been working with them for 12 years, and I know their No. 1 item that they have, their No. 1 priority is allowing reform,” he said. “Fox News Sunday.”
“We can’t build anything in the US. It takes five to 10 years. It takes one to three years in the developed world. And we have to have the infrastructure to move the energy, to market the products from the developed world.” Why be so behind to be able? And we’re asking people around the world to do something for us, we wouldn’t do for ourselves?” he continued. I
Manchin, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said his bill would speed up the permitting process for the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline that carries natural gas from West Virginia to Virginia.
“With the higher energy costs that we have, higher gas and natural gas prices, higher gasoline prices, the only way to lower those prices is by manufacturing and competing more, producing more. And that’s about it, ” munchkin said In an interview with a West Virginia radio station last month, her deal to defend the pipeline and support the Inflation Reduction Act.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said he opposes the reform plan, even though part of it runs through his state, fearing that “it could lead to serious abuse and even corruption.” can open the door.”
“If they demonstrate by virtue that they should be empowered to build a pipeline … then by all means build it,” Kane in a Speech on the Senate floor last week.
“But don’t accept the need for permission to improve and then select a project across the United States affecting my state and exclude it from permitting corrections, separating it from normal processes.”
post with wires