Pressed by Climate Activists, Senate Democrats Plan to ‘Go on Offense’ – ‘To make combating climate change a central issue of their 2020 campaigns’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/senate-democrats-climate-change.html WASHINGTON — Facing a showdown vote as early as this month over the embattled “Green New Deal,” Senate Democrats are preparing a counteroffensive to make combating climate change a central issue of their 2020 campaigns — a striking shift on an issue they have shied away from for the past decade. Senator Chuck Schumer […]
Dems wrestle over how to vote on ‘Green New Deal’
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/431938-dems-wrestle-over-how-to-vote-on-green-new-deal BY ALEXANDER BOLTON Senate Democratic leaders are grappling over how to vote on a controversial climate change proposal that is being championed by progressives and mocked by conservatives. The plan, offered by firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) will be voted on on the Senate floor later this year in a GOP-led effort to divide Democrats and […]
Schumer pledges to defund Trump’s ‘fake climate panel’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/26/chuck-schumer-pledges-defund-fake-climate-panel/ By Valerie Richardson – The Washington Times – Updated: 6:42 p.m. on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed Tuesday to defund any effort by the Trump administration to form an advisory committee on climate change, calling it a “fake climate panel.” His floor remarks came after multiple media outlets reported that the White House […]