McConnell, GOP give political payback to Manchin
Senate Republicans on Tuesday gave Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) a taste of political payback by forcing Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to cancel a scheduled vote on Manchin’s permitting reform bill. The message to Manchin is clear: Republicans are still furious over the surprise deal he cut with Schumer this summer to pass major pieces of the Democratic agenda. Manchin in a statement said it was “unfortunate that members of the United States Senate are allowing politics to put the energy security of our nation at risk” Sch
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Read MoreManchin asks Schumer to cut permitting from spending bill
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Tuesday asked for permitting reform changes he has been pushing to be cut from a stopgap funding bill as its passage appeared doomed amid bipartisan opposition. Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Manchin had previously agreed to include the reforms to the approval process for energy infrastructure in the stopgap funding bill, called a continuing resolution, as a condition of his support last month for Democrats’ climate, tax and health care bill. But several Republicans objected to how that deal came together and also said the la
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