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A new push from Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) to launch bipartisan talks on an energy and climate bill could waste precious time that would be better spent striking a deal on President Biden's stalled climate and social spending agenda, environmentalists and some Democrats warned on Tuesday. Securing 10 Republican votes for ambitious climate policy could be a tall order, they said, and could slow negotiations over the bold climate provisions in Biden's stalled spending bill at a crucial juncture ahead of the midterm elections.
“There are not 10 Republican votes for anything substantial on climate that would stave off the worst effects of the climate crisis, period,” Jamal Raad, executive director of the environmental group Evergreen Action, told The Climate 202. “I don't believe Republicans are serious about this,” he added. “I think this is all smoke and mirrors and that we need to get on to the work of the president and [Senate Majority Leader Charles E.] Schumer directly engaging with Manchin to see if we can strike a deal.” Manchin shook up the climate debate on Capitol Hill yet again on Monday evening, when he and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) organized a bipartisan meeting to explore the possibility of a bipartisan climate and energy security package.
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Manchin and Murkowski invited 16 senators — eight from each party — to their meeting Monday night. But Sen. Kevin Cramer (N.D.) was the sole Republican to attend the meeting in person, with others citing scheduling conflicts. “As I like to call him, Prime Minister Manchin, what he did is he called some people together from both parties,” Cramer said on Fox Business on Tuesday. “I just happened to be the only one from my party that showed up — not because they were disrespectful of Joe's ideas, but just because they had other priorities.”
Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), co-chair of the Senate Climate Solutions Caucus, was not invited to the meeting, his spokesman confirmed to The Climate 202. “I think it says something that only one Republican came to that meeting: Republicans are not serious about coming together for a bipartisan energy package,” Melinda Pierce, legislative director at the Sierra Club, told The Climate 202. “Any time and energy that's spent pursuing what is likely a dead end … is time and energy taken away from a reconciliation deal that's out there to land,” Pierce added.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/27/climate-advocates-fear-that-manchin-bipartisan-energy-push-is-all-smoke-mirrors/
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