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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texas appeared on Thursday to become the next flash point on politically charged issues in Corporate America after legislation passed by the state Senate to limit voting access prompted a rebuke from American Airlines.
Presidio County election judge Lauren Martinez folds a booth after polls and voting ended for the 2020 U.S. presidential election in Marfa, Texas, U.S., November 3, 2020. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
“We are strongly opposed to this bill and others like it,” Fort Worth, Texas-based American said in a statement.
The legislation, which is now set to go before the Texas House of Representatives, would eliminate drive-through voting, limit polling site hours and give partisan poll watchers more autonomy.
White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy on Thursday said the Biden administration would seek to pass a national clean energy standard through Congress.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday called for a sweeping use of government power to reshape the world's largest economy and counter China's rise in a $2 trillion-plus proposal that was met with swift Republican resistance.
U.S. President Joe Biden's infrastructure investment plan eschews fuel taxes and other traditional sources of funding for such initiatives in favor of corporate tax hikes that aim to raise $2 trillion in revenue over 15 years.
Members of the House depart after the first session of the 117th Congress in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, Jan. 3, 2021. Credit: Tasos Katopodis/Pool via REUTERS
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WASHINGTON - Detractors call them “pork,” invoking the cliche of a local congressman bringing home the bacon. Advocates call them “community project funding.”
Whatever the appellation, the debate over whether Congress can ethically bring back earmarks a maligned spending practice banished a decade ago is fueling debate among Texans in Congress. For some members, earmarks bring to mind an ugly past that landed one of their own in prison. Others see reviving the practice as one way to return to a functional, maybe even bipartisan, political system.