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House Republicans are introducing legislation that would push President Joe Biden to extract a more aggressive emissions reduction pledge from China before reengaging in the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
Their new bill, the Paris Transparency and Accountability Act, would force the Biden administration to report to Congress before it submits to the United Nations a new U.S. target to reduce emissions under the Paris Agreement.
The two-part legislation is led by the top Republicans on major committees: Garret Graves of the Select Committee on Climate Crisis, Cathy McMorris Rodgers of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Michael McCaul of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
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House Republicans look to hold Biden to more aggressive stance on China emissions
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Why Biden s overwhelming support from Dem voters matters
Oddly enough, Biden has managed to pull off a polling feat Trump felt the need to lie about.
President Joe Biden speaks during an event with the CEOs of Johnson and Johnson and Merck in Washington on March 10, 2021.Alex Wong / Getty Images
April 15, 2021, 3:16 PM UTC
BySteve Benen
Among Donald Trump s favorite lies was that he enjoyed an approval among Republican voters between 94% and 96% throughout his failed White House tenure. The boasts were never quite true, but the former president, preoccupied with the idea that only GOP voters mattered, peddled the line obsessively anyway.