Durbin after reading Green New Deal: 'What in the heck is this?'

Source: The Hill | February 20, 2019 | Jordain Carney

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Wednesday declined to say if he will vote for the “Green New Deal” resolution, saying that after he read it he asked a key sponsor of the legislation, “What in the heck is this?”

“At this point, I would be — I can’t tell ya, to be honest with you. I’ve read it, and I’ve reread it. And I asked Ed Markey what in the — what in the heck is this? He says it is an aspiration, you know, it’s a resolution aspiration,” Durbin said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” referring to the Democratic senator from Massachusetts.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is expected to force a vote on the resolution, which Republicans believe will provide fodder for 2020 elections by forcing a handful of Democratic presidential hopefuls to go on the record for or against the measure.

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