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Oil lobbying group pans House GOP hardliners rejecting the Senate’s plan to avert a shutdown

Oil and natural gas lobbying group Western Energy Alliance on Wednesday whacked the small group of conservative House Republicans opposing a bipartisan Senate deal to avoid a looming government shutdown.

September 27, 2023

Durbin joins swell of resignation calls for Menendez

Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin became the highest-ranking Senate Democrat to say Sen. Robert Menendez should quit over bribery and public corruption charges.

September 27, 2023

More Senate Dems cut Bob Menendez loose, call for resignation over bribery charges

The floodgates opened Tuesday with calls from roughly half of Senate Democrats for Sen. Bob Menendez to resign over bribery and public corruption charges.

September 26, 2023

House GOP investigates Energy Sec. Granholm’s EV road trip: ‘Taxpayer-funded publicity stunt’

The House Oversight Committee launched an investigation Tuesday into a summer electric-vehicle road trip taken by Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm meant to promote the Biden administration's green energy agenda.

September 26, 2023

EVs sales on pace to fall woefully short of Biden target to phase out gas-powered cars

Electric vehicle sales continue to lag far below the levels necessary to achieve proposed EPA emissions standards, threatening a pillar of President Biden's green-energy agenda.

September 25, 2023

Menendez defiantly vows to stay in office amid bribery charges, says resignation calls ‘political’

A defiant Sen. Robert Menendez on Monday rejected calls from fellow Democrats for his resignation over federal bribery and public corruption charges.

September 25, 2023

Democrats pressuring Sen. Bob Menendez to resign over bribery charges, corruption accusations

Calls for Sen. Robert Menendez to resign intensified Sunday from within the New Jersey Democrat's party as other elected leaders said the federal bribery charges and accusations of public corruption were grounds to relinquish his office.

September 24, 2023

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins list of Democrats calling on Sen. Bob Menendez to resign

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the latest elected Democrat on Sunday to call for the resignation of New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez over federal charges that he accepted bribes while in office.

September 24, 2023

Ex-N.J. Gov. Chris Christie has ‘no interest’ in running for Senate amid indictment of Bob Menendez

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Sunday he has no plans to run against Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, who has been indicted on charges of bribery and aiding Egypt.

September 24, 2023

Rep. Matt Gaetz says he’s holding a ‘political gun’ to head of Speaker Kevin McCarthy over spending

Rep. Matt Gaetz took a victory lap Sunday for the opposition that he and a small number of hardline conservatives have mounted over funding the federal government and averting a shutdown.

September 24, 2023

Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg blames Trump for China dominance in EV industry

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg pointed the finger at former President Donald Trump when pressed Sunday on how the transition to electric vehicles may negatively affect autoworkers amid a strike because EVs require less labor.

September 24, 2023

McConnell slams Biden Climate Corps as ‘taxpayer-funded pipeline’ to turn activists into bureaucrats

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell laid into President Biden for using his executive power to create the American Climate Corps, a New Deal-style jobs training program that will pay 20,000 young people to go into careers fighting climate change.

September 21, 2023

Mike Bloomberg: Shift from oil must be ‘practical,’ praises UAE’s oil leader hosting climate summit

Michael R. Bloomberg, former New York City mayor and billionaire philanthropist, on Thursday cautioned against a hasty transition from oil and gas-powered cars in the U.S. to fight climate change.

September 21, 2023

DeSantis claims he’ll achieve $2 gas as president, vows to reverse Biden climate agenda

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pledged Wednesday to lower gas prices to $2 per gallon if he wins the White House next year, an ambitious claim that energy analysts say is unrealistic because of a president's lack of control over the global oil market.

September 20, 2023

Biden greenlights government-funded jobs, training for young people to fight climate change

The White House has a new help wanted ad seeking thousands of young Americans to be paid and trained for green energy and environmental jobs.

September 20, 2023

UAW strike puts Biden’s electric vehicle revolution in the hot seat

The United Auto Workers strike that stretched into its fourth day on Monday has put a spotlight on how President Biden's electric-vehicle transition is presenting hurdles for a key labor constituency of the incumbent Democrat.

September 18, 2023

House Republicans reach stopgap spending deal as Congress races to avert government shutdown

House Republicans revealed their own short-term government funding package Sunday evening as lawmakers in Washington work to reach a bipartisan deal to avoid a Sept. 30 shutdown deadline.

September 17, 2023

UAW union leader demands 40% pay raise, a shorter workweek as autoworkers’ strike drags on

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain said Sunday that a 21% raise for its union members was "definitely a no-go" amid demands for Detroit's Big Three automakers to pony up a 40% pay boost, better benefits and a shorter workweek.

September 17, 2023

Armed man protests outside Biden’s Delaware home

A man with a handgun holstered on his waist was seen Sunday protesting outside the Delaware home of President Biden.

September 17, 2023

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy to meet with Senate amid talks on more military aid

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will host a chamber-wide meeting Thursday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to a leadership aide.

September 17, 2023