24 "Climate Solutions Caucus" Members Voted For Tax Sham; They Are Now Targets
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Members of the House Climate Solutions Caucus — a group formed in early 2016 to bring Republicans and Democrats together to advance meaningful climate change legislation — who voted for the tax bill are expected to attract the ire of groups that have been fighting for decades to protect ANWR and taking steps to prevent the onset of catastrophic climate change.
The vast majority of the Republican climate caucus members joined their fellow GOP lawmakers to vote for a tax bill that, as League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski explained Wednesday, “will turn one of our last remaining wild places into an industrial oilfield.” The House on Wednesday gave its final approval to the Republican plan in a 224-to-201 vote, clearing the tax bill’s final hurdle in Congress and sending it to President Donald Trump to be signed into law.
The House Climate Solutions Caucus currently has 62 members, split evenly between Republicans and Democrats. Out of the 31 Republican members, 24 voted for the Republican tax bill. All 31 Democratic members of the caucus voted against it. Even one of the co-founders of the caucus, Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), gave his blessing to the tax bill.
“Caucus Chair Carlos Curbelo has talked a good game about wanting to protect his Miami constituents from rising seas, but with today’s vote he’s proven he cares more about his campaign contributors’ rising profits,” Climate Hawks Vote, a grassroots-funded group that supports candidates and elected officials whom it identifies as making climate change a top priority, said Tuesday in a news release.
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https://thinkprogress.org/republican-climate-members-vote-656c69f72991/