Posted on 08/13/2021 5:42:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed Markey and other cosponsors of the Green New Deal voted this week to prohibit adoption of their own plan — while criticizing Senate Republicans for proposing a "sham" amendment to the budget reconciliation bill.
Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming proposed an amendment to the Democrats' $3.5 trillion reconciliation package to "prohibit enactment of the Green New Deal." The measure passed 99-0, with yes votes from every U.S. senator present.
Despite voting in favor of the amendment, Democratic senators said their $3.5 trillion reconciliation legislation will make the "largest investment in climate action in history."
"The Green New Deal is not about protecting the environment, it's about making big government even bigger," Barrasso said on the Senate floor.
Following the vote, Green New Deal cosponsors — including Sens. Markey, Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — slammed Republicans for a "bad-faith amendment meant to politicize climate action right when we need it most."
"This cynical, sham vote comes on the precipice of our country's largest investment in climate action in history, and on the heels of yesterday's IPCC report that unequivocally stated that the human-driven climate crisis is destroying our planet,” the senators said in a joint statement. "The budget reconciliation package will allow us to unleash millions of good-paying, union jobs in wind, solar, and clean energy technologies — good policies with broad public support. It will give workers power, and it will be paid for by the corporations — including Big Oil — who have polluted our planet for generations."
Despite joining in the unanimous vote to prohibit the enactment of their Green New Deal, the senators maintained that their centralized plan for a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. energy industry and economy has found popular favor.
"Senate Republicans clearly do not believe climate change is an existential threat to humankind, but they know that the goals of the Green New Deal are an existential threat to Big Oil and their corporate polluter allies," they wrote. "The power of the Green New Deal has struck a chord in this country — Americans see how a Green New Deal can transform our economy and democracy to address climate change. This amendment is a tired and failed Republican attempt to throw speed bumps on the road to climate action."
Markey has said that "without question" the Green New Deal is in the DNA of the budget reconciliation bill.
As part of reconciliation, Democrats have proposed many green initiatives, including creating a Civilian Climate Corps, spending $174 billion on electric vehicles, and allocating $213 billion to "build, preserve, and retrofit more than 2 million homes and commercial buildings; modernize our nation's schools, community colleges, and early learning facilities; and upgrade veterans' hospitals and federal buildings."
Using budget reconciliation allows Democrats in the 50-50 Senate to pass their budget without votes from Republicans with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tie-breaking vote.
“Climate change” is a false premise and a lie. Just like the COVID scam, it’s based on Political Science and not true science. So simply everything beyond this such as the “New Green Deal” is a complete fraud and stealing money from the people.
GOPe are idiots. The CommieRats will just change the name and pass it or, they will pass pieces of it attached to other bills. This amendment is absolutely nothing but vapor.
I’m sorry, but could someone explain to me exactly why we have a Congress? ‘Cause it doesn’t seem to function much like a legislative body.
If ‘PRO’ is the opposite of ‘CON’, then Congress is the opposite of Progress..................
In order to cement their power permanently, they MUST HAVE A BOOGIEMAN TO BLAME, OR A CRISIS TO FIGHT OR ENDURE.
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“We have always been at war with Eastasia, Winston.” ― George Orwell, 1984
What, dems are the only ones to insert poison pills into reconciliation amendments? Nice move.
CC
“Following the vote, Green New Deal cosponsors — including Sens. Markey, Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — slammed Republicans for a “bad-faith amendment meant to politicize climate action right when we need it most.”
When people named Markey, Booker, Gillibrand, Warren, & Sanders are unhappy. It makes my day better knowing they’re displeased.
The only question is: Will I be drinking beer or whiskey in celebration?
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