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Rep. Marie Newman (D-Ill.) is one of several lawmakers who have introduced legislation to price carbon. Credit: Bill Clark
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Executives from oil companies, utilities and some of the world’s biggest companies are meeting with senators and staff this week to push a carbon-fee-and-dividend proposal.
The Climate Leadership Council has organized virtual meetings with members of both parties and executives from ConocoPhillips, Exelon Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp., Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., Hannon Armstrong, IBM and several other companies.
The advocacy push comes as Congress prepares to consider President Biden’s infrastructure plan, widely seen as a possible conduit for climate policy.
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The president’s latest push goes beyond expanded background checks and sets the stage for votes to ban assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines a potential political liability in Senate battlegrounds such as Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
One North Carolina-based Democratic strategist said voting on an assault weapons ban would help fuel Republican arguments that the Biden administration is coming to take their guns.
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“Republicans are already claiming that Democrats are trying to take people’s guns and have no respect for the Second Amendment,” said the strategist.
“It is a problem in all those states, in my mind,” the strategist said of the debate on gun control measures. “The question which is going to determine 2022 is: Is it going to be enough to get those Trump voters out to vote?”
President Biden to announce withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by September 11 Share Updated: 12:10 PM MDT Apr 13, 2021 Kevin Liptak, CNN Share Updated: 12:10 PM MDT Apr 13, 2021
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Show Transcript we are still involved in trying to get a negotiated settlement. The Taliban have not met their commitments. Um, as you know, there is a looming deadline of early May that that, uh, that before everybody in terms of, you know, wanting to have, um, a solution here, but without them meeting their commitments to renounce terrorism and to, uh, stop the violent attacks on the Afghan national security forces. And, you know, by dint of that, the Afghan people, um, it s very hard to see um uh, a specific way forward for the negotiated settlement, But we re still committed to that. There s no question about that. The secretary has been clear in testimony that the that that s that we need to find a reasonable, rational end to this war and
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