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U.S. Senate passes historic climate bill
The Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 on Sunday, a $433 billion climate, energy, health, and tax bill that will set the United States on course to reduce its cumulative emissions roughly 40 percent, compared to 2005 levels, by 2030. Fifty Democratic senators voted for the bill, including centrists Joe Manchin, from West Virginia, and Kyrsten Sinema, from Arizona. Republican senators unilaterally opposed the legislation. Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote.
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Revealed: Joe Manchin's price for supporting climate bill
To accommodate the West Virginia senator, Democratic leadership agreed to legislation streamlining permits for the often-stalled Mountain Valley Pipeline and removing jurisdiction from a court that keeps ruling against the project.
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Trump-backed candidates prevail in U.S. midterm primaries
Republican voters on Tuesday chose a raft of candidates supporting Donald Trump's 2020 election falsehoods in multiple party primaries for the November general election - a stark display of the former president's grip on his party.
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Manchin says he'll be pitching Kyrsten Sinema to vote for his $740 billion climate and healthcare deal as Democrats race to send it to Biden's desk
Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said on Monday that he intends to try and to seal his $740 billion deal with the lone potential Senate Democratic holdout. The conservative Democrat said he plans to personally pitch Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona on the legislation, as soon as Monday evening on the Senate floor. Without Sinema's vote, Senate Democrats can't approve the bill using budget reconciliation, a tactic that requires unanimity among all 50 senators to sidestep GOP opposition.
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Joe Manchin Agrees To Sweeping Legislation To Raise Taxes On Wealthy, Invest In Climate
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Wednesday he’s reached a deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on a sweeping $740 billion package to increase taxes on the wealthy and invest in climate and health care while also reducing the deficit.
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CHIPS Act passes Senate vote, after $52B became $280B to fund scientific research too
The CHIPS Act, originally designed to provide $52B in incentives for chipmakers to open US plants, has now passed a Senate vote, with bipartisan support. It is expected to pass a House vote as early as next week, but has gained weight in its journey through Congress.
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Saltzman tapped to succeed Raymond as chief of the U.S. Space Force
President Biden has nominated Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, currently serving as U.S. Space Force deputy chief of operations, for promotion to four-star general, and selected him to lead the Space Force as chief of space operations.
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Republicans in Congress lay groundwork for anti-transgender push
U.S. Republicans in Congress are lining up behind legislation that critics say would roll back protections for transgender people, setting a playbook for action on a divisive social issue should they take control of Congress this fall.
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Biden to sign executive order to protect some abortion access, AP reports
President Joe Biden will take executive action Friday to protect access to abortion, according to three people familiar with the matter, as he faces mounting pressure from Democrats to be more forceful on the subject after the Supreme Court ended a constitutional right to the procedure two weeks ago.
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Dems want to tax high earners to protect Medicare solvency
Senate Democrats want to boost taxes on some high earners and use the money to extend the solvency of Medicare, the latest step in the party’s election-year attempt to craft a scaled-back version of the economic package that collapsed last year, Democratic aides told The Associated Press.
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Supreme Negligence
Earlier this morning, the US Supreme Court preemptively ruled that the Biden administration cannot enact the Clean Power Plan—or anything else like it that would force a shift away from coal and gas to less carbon-intensive energy sources—without Congress.
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Jon Voight’s call for President Joe Biden’s impeachment sends Twitter into uproar
Jon Voight’s latest condemnation of US President Joe Biden has sent Twitter into uproar. The actor and father of Angelina Jolie posted a two-minute clip on Twitter earlier this week, calling for the impeachment of Biden for having “wronged this nation’s glory”.
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Five Ways the Democrats Can Replace Biden
In December 2021, politicos were abuzz over what the Democrats should do with Joe Biden, given his flagging approval numbers and intention to run for re-election. I wrote about why it was far too early to offer any meaningful analysis of the 2024 election, much less make any predictions. I rattled off 25 things that might happen between then and November 2024 which could individually change the dynamics of the election. Six months later, the landscape is already changing...
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Did Joe Manchin block climate action to benefit his financial interests?
Nancy Hilsbos, a former coalminer living in the West Virginia county that Senator Joe Manchin calls home, barely noticed the nondescript office block she passed almost daily.
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A national park site can lose NPS status: Here’s how that happens
The National Park Service currently oversees 423 sites and is studying another 21 for possible consideration to join the system. But even if these sites do receive national park status, they could …
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House Dems shun primary fight against anti-abortion incumbent
The party is rallying behind abortion rights as a key 2022 issue, but few House Democrats are backing anti-abortion Rep. Henry Cuellar’s challenger.
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The UFO briefings on Capitol Hill have begun. Lawmakers aren’t impressed.
Lawmakers receiving the latest secret briefings on UFOs say national security agencies still aren’t taking seriously the reports of highly advanced aircraft of unknown origin violating protected airspace.
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House passes bill to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus
The measure, which would allow the U.S. to impose steep tariffs on Russian imports, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and now heads to the Senate.
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US, allies to revoke 'most favored nation' status for Russia
President Joe Biden will announce Friday that, along with the European Union and the Group of Seven countries, the U.S. will move to revoke “most favored nation” trade status for Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
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Republicans Are Moving Rapidly to Cement Minority Rule. Blame the Constitution.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of the violent assault on the Capitol, the prevailing argument on the left and much of the center is that the Republican Party poses a novel threat to American democracy. This is a flawed assessment, which oversells and understates the danger we face.
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