House Democrats took another step Friday in their effort to advance a $1.9 trillion
COVID-19 relief bill, releasing the full bill text, which includes an increase in the federal minimum wage to$15 per hour, $1,400 direct checks for Americans making $75,000 or less a year, an extension of $400 federal unemployment benefits and more money for small businesses struggling amid the pandemic.
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The legislation, which had already been passed in pieces out of individual committees, was packaged together by the House Budget Committee.
The panel will take up the bill Monday and it is expected to come to the House floor for a vote later next week.
The Anti-Democratic Senate is Too Dysfunctional To Do The People’s Work
Republicans, led by the “Grim Reaper” of the Senate legislative graveyard, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, seem to think that the best way for them to heal their divided party is to unite in opposition to Joe Biden’s plan to tackle the public health and economic crisis that he inherited from Republicans last month, i.e., a return to Mitch McConnell’s policy of “total obstruction” from the Obama years.
Axios reports that “Mike Donilon, senior adviser to President Biden, argues in a memo to White House senior staff that GOP opposition to the COVID rescue package would shrink the party’s already declining national support.” White House memo: Obstruction will cost GOP:
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Biden Moves to Dial Down America’s Soaring Methane Emissions
Experts say the new administration can jumpstart climate protections by taking on rising methane emissions, but it won’t be easy or quick.
On his first day in office, President Biden signed a sweeping executive order that stops the Keystone XL pipeline and pauses oil lease sales in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But behind these headlines, the order also requires a thorough review of the Trump administration’s rollbacks on methane pollution. The action signals that the new president may agree with experts who say one of our biggest environmental challenges could also be one of our best opportunities to tackle climate change.
Investors see green returns as renewable energy rises
By DAMIAN J. TROISEJanuary 26, 2021 GMT
The future looks bright for solar and other renewable energy technology.
FirstSolar, Enphase and SunPower are among the renewable energy stocks that are benefiting from a much friendlier administration in the White House, whose agenda includes tackling climate change and bolstering green energy. Their stocks soared last year, far outpacing the wider market’s gains.
On his first day in office, President Joe Biden rejoined the 2015 Paris climate agreement, revoked a permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline and halted oil and gas leasing in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.