Sen. Blunt Offers Resolution to Express Senate Opposition to Carbon Tax

摘要

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) introduced a resolution May 24 that would put the Senate on record as opposing a U.S. tax on carbon pollution. Blunt's sense-of-the Senate resolution is similar to other carbon tax prohibitions he has offered in recent years, including several as amendments to annual budget resolutions. The Senate in March 2015 adopted a similar amendment to its fiscal 2016 budget resolution. But budget resolution amendments are largely symbolic-and nonbinding-since the budget blueprints are not signed by the president (46 ER 913, 3/27/15).