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Liz Cheney calls for House vote on Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal [View all]
LBN thread: Rep. Liz Cheney Goes On 'Hooey' Rant About The Green New Deal
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Source: The Hill
Liz Cheney calls for House vote on Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal
BY TIMOTHY CAMA - 02/13/19 12:49 PM EST
The No. 3 Republican in the House is calling on Democratic leaders to hold a vote on the Green New Deal, an aggressive plan to fight climate change.
Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, said a vote would help the American people learn where lawmakers stand on the non-binding resolution that she and others have painted as a socialist plan that would ruin the economy.
“We think Democrats need to be held accountable,” Cheney told reporters Wednesday. “If they support this as they say they do, and as their presidential candidates do, then let’s have a vote on it and see to what extent they’re all going to get behind moving towards this kind of fantasy.”
Cheney, whose state is the nation's top coal producer, said the Democrats backing the proposal “have said they would attempt to eliminate all planes, all air travel, within a decade. The results would be the elimination also of gasoline, the elimination of cars as we know them now.”
The resolution, introduced last week by Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), calls for a quick, 10-year plan to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, through an aggressive increase in renewable energy, plus a jobs guarantee and other provisions.
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BY TIMOTHY CAMA - 02/13/19 12:49 PM EST
The No. 3 Republican in the House is calling on Democratic leaders to hold a vote on the Green New Deal, an aggressive plan to fight climate change.
Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, said a vote would help the American people learn where lawmakers stand on the non-binding resolution that she and others have painted as a socialist plan that would ruin the economy.
“We think Democrats need to be held accountable,” Cheney told reporters Wednesday. “If they support this as they say they do, and as their presidential candidates do, then let’s have a vote on it and see to what extent they’re all going to get behind moving towards this kind of fantasy.”
Cheney, whose state is the nation's top coal producer, said the Democrats backing the proposal “have said they would attempt to eliminate all planes, all air travel, within a decade. The results would be the elimination also of gasoline, the elimination of cars as we know them now.”
The resolution, introduced last week by Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), calls for a quick, 10-year plan to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, through an aggressive increase in renewable energy, plus a jobs guarantee and other provisions.
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Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/429832-cheney-calls-for-house-vote-on-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal
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