Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) indicated to reporters at the Democratic National Convention that climate legislation would be on the agenda if Democrats retain the White House and Senate and regain House control for 2025. |
“We’d like to get [carbon emissions] to zero by 2050, and I think we can in a reconciliation bill. It’s very, very important,” Schumer told reporters at the convention in Chicago.
Reconciliation is a congressional maneuver that allows lawmakers to advance legislation with a simple majority, without the threat of the filibuster. Democrats used the mechanism to pass the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the largest climate bill in U.S. history, in 2022. Schumer added that the two members of the Senate caucus most opposed to a carveout to the filibuster — Sens. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) — are set to retire after this year. Manchin’s objections to the more ambitious Build Back Better proposal torpedoed the bill, although he would later back the IRA. Read more from our colleague Alexander Bolton at TheHill.com. |
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