White House veto threat led Senate Democrats to punt energy-water bill

摘要

A threatened White House veto led Democratic appropriators to punt a $34 billion energy and water spending bill today, adding to the pile of appropriations legislation stuck in limbo amid Republican attempts to force votes on controversial Obama administration policies ahead of the November elections. The catalyst for today's markup cancellation was a threatened amendment from Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that would have undermined U.S. EPA's recently unveiled rule to limit power sector greenhouse gas emissions. McConnell's camp has not provided any more details on the amendment, but his aides insist it would be germane despite the fact that EPA is not funded by the energy and water bill that was set to be marked up this morning.