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House rejects Biden’s student debt relief but fails to override veto on Chinese solar tariffs

The House on Wednesday passed Republican legislation rejecting President Biden's student debt forgiveness, while failing to override his veto of a bipartisan effort to reimpose tariffs on Chinese solar companies.

May 24, 2023

Gas stove debate sparks racial talk from Democrats as Biden officials duck public grilling

The Biden administration's proposed gas stove efficiency rules were placed on the front burner Wednesday as House lawmakers sparred over potential regulations that have Department of Energy officials laying low.

May 24, 2023

Biden energy officials to snub House GOP hearing on gas stove regulations

Department of Energy officials asked by Republicans to testify at a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday about the administration's proposed gas-stove regulations are refusing to appear, a GOP aide for the panel tells The Washington Times.

May 23, 2023

House GOP approves rollback of Biden’s truck emissions rule with help of Dems, teeing up 4th veto

The House passed legislation Tuesday to roll back an Environmental Protection Agency rule to slash emissions for heavy-duty trucks and semis, sending the GOP-led measure to President Biden's desk for what is expected to be his fourth veto.

May 23, 2023

McConnell strikes upbeat tone as Congress heads toward default deadline: ‘Everybody needs to relax’

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell expressed optimism Tuesday that the White House and House Republicans would reach an agreement to avoid defaulting on the nation's debt, despite an early June deadline approaching with no deal in sight.

May 23, 2023

Tom Carper becomes latest Senate Democrat to not seek reelection

Sen. Tom Carper, Delaware Democrat, announced Monday that he will not seek reelection in 2024 to serve a fifth term in the seat he's held since 2001.

May 22, 2023

GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy: ‘I don’t think Trump can win’ against Biden

Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican who voted to convict Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, said Sunday he does not think the former president can win in a rematch against President Biden.

May 21, 2023

14th Amendment poses a risky Biden solution to eliminate debt ceiling

President Biden is threatening to use an unprecedented and constitutionally questionable maneuver to circumvent Republicans on the debt limit less than two weeks before the U.S. is projected to default and be unable to pay its bills.

May 21, 2023

N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper: New abortion law is compromise between ‘right-wing and the radical right-wing’

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said Sunday that the state's new 12-week abortion law that was passed over his veto was a deal struck between "right-wing" Republicans.

May 21, 2023

Treasury Secretary Yellen says 14th Amendment wouldn’t be ‘appropriately used’ for debt ceiling

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday that President Biden invoking the 14th Amendment to circumvent Congress and lift the debt ceiling to avoid default is not likely legally sound.

May 21, 2023

House GOP budget chair says ‘We’ve done our job,’ as debt ceiling talks stall

House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington said Sunday the ball is in President Biden's court when it comes to raising the debt ceiling and avoiding default amid broken-down negotiations.

May 21, 2023

Democrats resurrect fossil fuels export ban that analysts fear would hike energy prices

Congressional Democrats revived a proposal Thursday to reinstate a fossil fuels export ban in a multipronged bid to lower the price of natural gas and petroleum products while decreasing fossil fuel production to combat climate change.

May 18, 2023

Conservatives target ‘ESG elites’ ascending on Washington for energy summit

Anti-ESG crusader Consumers' Research is set to parade mobile billboards on streets in the heart of Washington Thursday as top government officials and influential voices gather at an event to discuss energy and green initiatives, the conservative activist group told The Washington Times.

May 18, 2023

Side deal to fast track energy projects, expand power grid emerges in debt limit wrangling

House and Senate negotiators working to secure a deal to raise the nation's borrowing limit are weighing a plan that could eventually give the federal government expanded authority to green-light an extended phalanx of interstate transmission lines for wind, solar and hydropower.

May 17, 2023

Manchin tanks Biden energy nominee over proposed gas stove rules

Senate Energy Committee Chairman Joe Manchin III is putting the kibosh on one of President Biden's top Department of Energy nominees over the administration's proposed efficiency standards for new gas stoves.

May 17, 2023

Biden issues third veto against bipartisan effort to restore Chinese solar panel tariffs

President Biden delivered only the third veto of his presidency Tuesday against bipartisan legislation to reimpose tariffs he temporarily suspended on China-allied Southeast Asian solar panel producers, siding with clean-energy advocates over the domestic solar panel industry.

May 16, 2023

GOP bill to block Biden’s anti-gas stove regulations advanced by House panel

The Biden administration's proposed regulations discouraging the use of natural gas stoves were on the front burner Tuesday as a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee advanced Republican-led legislation to block new restrictions against the popular household appliance.

May 16, 2023

How energy prices will shape key House and Senate races in 2024

States with key congressional races on the ballot next year are among those with booming fossil fuel industries that generate billions of dollars in economic activity each year, providing an avenue for rising energy costs and President Biden's climate change policies to become top campaign issues.

May 16, 2023

Senate Democrats to sue West Virginia governor who’s running against Manchin

Senate Democrats may not always get along with Sen. Joe Manchin III, but the party's campaign arm is going on offense for the conservative West Virginia Democrat in a bid to weaken a Republican challengers.

May 15, 2023

Rep. James Comer says he ‘can’t track down’ top informant in Biden family probe

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Sunday that congressional investigators probing President Biden's family over foreign influence-peddling allegations have lost contact with a leading informant.

May 14, 2023