Published: Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Snowy Houston. Photo credit: China Nouvelle/SIPA/Newscom
Snow and frigid temperatures this week left millions of people without power in Houston and beyond. China Nouvelle/SIPA/Newscom
Congressional lawmakers are demanding answers on how Texas electric grid failed nearly 4.5 million people who remained without power yesterday amid frigid temperatures.
Statements from some House Democrats, including from Texas, suggest Congress may seek more federal oversight of the nation s most independent grid operator. The failure of some power plants to produce electricity when we need it most has meant a great deal of suffering for those affected by the blackouts, said Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas), an Energy and Commerce Committee member who represents a portion of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.
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Unemployment benefits will begin to lapse for millions of American In less than a month, putting the pressure squarely on Congress and Democratic leaders to usher through a $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill.
The co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission, Tom Kean Sr. and Lee Hamilton, asked congressional leaders to convene another blue-ribbon commission to probe the Jan. 6 insurrection by supporters of Donald Trump.
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Impeachment manager Joe Neguse made the argument that violence was both predictable and foreseeable at the Jan. 6 rally before the Capitol riot. Was it foreseeable that the violence would erupt on January 6th if President Trump lit a spark? Was it predictable that the crowd at the Save America rally was poised on a hair trigger for violence that they would fight literally if provoked to do so? Of course it was. When President Trump stood up to that podium on January 6th, he knew that many in that crowd were inflamed, were armed, were ready for violence. It was an explosive situation. And he knew it, Neguse said.