Posted on 06/27/2023 8:46:18 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
Republican Texas Rep. August Pfluger and West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito introduced legislation Monday morning aiming to preempt any possible attempt by President Joe Biden to use emergency powers to circumvent congressional checks on his administration’s sweeping climate agenda.
“The Real Emergencies Act” would clarify that the president is unable to invoke emergency powers permitted by the National Emergencies Act, the Disaster Relief and Emergencies Act and the Public Health Service Act on the basis of a perceived climate change crisis. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other left-wing congressional lawmakers have called for Biden to declare a national climate emergency to further his administration’s aggressive climate agenda.
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Schumer said in January 2021 that a declaration of climate emergency would enable Biden to “do many, many things under the emergency powers of the President that wouldn’t have to go through – that he could do without legislation.” Schumer’s comments came as the Inflation Reduction Act had stalled in congress amid Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s initial refusal to support many of the bill’s provisions in an evenly-divided Senate.
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We’ve seen how they handle “emergency powers”.
Never again.
Will not comply.
This is really dumb, even if well intentioned. With a Democrat senate and Biden do they really expect it to go anywhere?
All it’s doing is giving them ideas of what to do when they have both houses and the presidency.
Of course. Maybe republicans will take 2024 seriously and do whatever it takes to win. Let’s hope. Souls to the polls at all mega churches all over the country for early voting. Pot luck supper after. Why let the democrats have all the fun?
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