Republicans Continue Attack on EPA Rule; McConnell Presses for Quick Vote on Bill

摘要

Republicans wasted little time June 4 in resuming what has become a daily campaign targeting the Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to cut power plant carbon pollution while also putting Democrats who support the rules on the defensive. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) began the day with a procedural move aimed at forcing the chamber to take up his Coal Country Protection Act (S. 2414), which he introduced a day earlier. The bill would force the Obama administration to certify that the EPA's limits on existing power plants wouldn't reduce employment, hurt the economy or increase electricity rates.