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Democrats retained control of the House in November 2020, though the party enjoys a notably smaller majority after losing several seats to Republicans. Additionally, after Democrats prevailed in both runoff elections in Georgia on January 5, 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris can provide the tie-breaking vote to give Democrats the majority in the Senate.
Leadership of the House committees in the 117th Congress, which convened on January 3, 2021, remains largely the same. At least nine Senate committees are slated to have new Republican minority leadership, mostly due to term limits. The majority of Democratic committee chairs for the Senate committees are yet to be announced, though we expect some Democratic members who formerly held Senate minority leadership roles in the 116th Congress to serve as chairs. The three committees that have announced chair changes thus far include the Banking Committee, which Sen. Sherrod Br
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CHARLESTON U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., took to the floor of the U.S. Senate on Thursday, criticizing executive orders from President Joe Biden she said could negatively affect West Virginia, from the energy industry down to schools.
Capito criticized a series of executive orders issued by Biden on Wednesday to address climate change. One of these orders halts all new oil and natural gas leases on federal property and offshore, as well as a review of all current permits and leases.
“This is an economic energy and national security disaster,” Capito said. “In my view, this order moves America from energy independence back to relying on foreign sources of fuel. And a lot of times these are the countries that have much laxer environmental policies than we have right here in the United States.”
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WHAT: President Biden continued his flurry of initial executive actions by signing an Executive Order (EO) on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. The Executive Order builds on the Biden Administration’s previous climate change actions, such as submitting documentation to rejoin the Paris Agreement, and lays out the President’s plans to address climate change through both foreign policy and government-wide activities within the United States. When fully implemented, the Executive Order could affect the types of purchases the Government makes and impose additional environmental responsibilities on private sector entities that do business with the Government. Given the wide range of the Executive Order, the types of affected contractors could be similarly sweeping extending beyond traditional providers of goods and services to include industries such as communications, transportation, managed services, technol