Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats will pursue a series of votes in the coming weeks to roll back some of President Donald Trump’s regulations on health care, taxes and the environment.
for Obama’s signature climate change regulation, which eliminates state-specific carbon dioxide emissions reductions and replaces them with a narrower plan enabling states to upgrade the efficiency of power plants to drive carbon dioxide reductions.Senate Democrats will also force votes on rolling back the administration’s greenlighting skimpier health care plans that do not meet the standards of the Affordable Care Act.
The Democratic minority is able to force the regulatory votes under the Congressional Review Act, which allows regulations to be overturned by a simple majority. McConnell successfully rolled back some of Obama’s regulations at the start of 2017, though Schumer will need at least four GOP defections to chip away at Trump’s regulations, a difficult task.
Environmental advocates and a coalition of states have already begun what’s expected to be a lengthy legal challenge to the Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy regulation of power plant emissions, which have been the subject of heated debate in Congress for the better part of the decade.
Holding votes on bills that are guaranteed to go nowhere in the Senate .. is doing nothing. Its theater and wasting time. What a bunch of clowns.
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