Senate Republicans Seek Electoral Gains With Energy Changes, but Reid Bars Way

摘要

Senate Republicans want to vote on energy proposals that could bolster their party's candidates in the November election. Their problem: Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) won't let them. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the top Senate Republican, is pressing for a vote to help Kentucky's struggling coal industry just two weeks before his Republican primary contest. He's trying to bar the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing new carbon standards for U.S. power plants, a step that may shutter plants in his home state.