Don't be fooled. The "permitting reform" bill was nothing more than a big wet kiss for Big Wind. And Manchin will now go down in history as the worst West Virginia Senator in modern history.
Hot Air (9/28/22) article: "The Senate voted Tuesday on the motion to end the debate on proceeding to a continuing resolution to avoid a partial government shutdown. The vote was 72-23. In order to get to the vote, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WVA) agreed to pull his permitting reform bill that Majority Leader Chuck Schumer attached as a rider to the continuing resolution. As predicted, Schumer will get his vote on a continuing resolution to keep the government from going into a partial shutdown at the end of the week. Republican senators sided with progressive Democrats to deny Manchin his permitting reform bill and Manchin simply didn’t have the votes to pass his bill. I started my post on Manchin’s predicament yesterday by saying he was about to hit a brick wall. That is exactly what happened. The question is why did he ever trust his fellow Democrats in the first place? Manchin began to believe his own publicity as a dealmaker. He and Senator Sinema have become known as two Democrats in the Senate who often refuse to go along with Joe Biden’s progressive agenda. They hold out on committing to vote for big spending and new taxes until they receive concessions. With an evenly divided Senate, Manchin, in particular, has embraced his new-found power to be a dealmaker. That all came to an end, though, when he voted yes on the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). He held out until the last minute when he received assurances from Schumer that his permitting reform bill would get a vote by the end of September and West Virginia would get a pipeline."
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