McConnell: Senate will vote on the Green New Deal

Source: Politico | February 12, 2019 | Anthony Adragna

Republican lawmakers challenged Democrats to back up their support for the “Green New Deal” on Tuesday, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell saying he plans to bring the ambitious resolution to the Senate floor and conservatives in the House pressing for a vote in their chamber.

The move by McConnell is an attempt to use the plan spearheaded by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to paint Democrats — including a half dozen presidential challengers —as far to the left of the American public in their support for a measure Republicans have derided as a “socialist fantasy.”

“I’ve noted with great interest the Green New Deal and we’re going to be voting on that in the Senate,” McConnell said. “We’ll give everybody a chance to go on record and see how they feel about the Green New Deal.”

Unveiled last week by Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the non-binding Green New Deal resolution, S. Res. 59 (116), calls for a 10-year “national mobilization” to move the U.S. economy off fossil fuels to combat climate change, provide health care for all, increase wages and expand union rights. Several presidential hopefuls in the Senate have signed on as co-sponsors to the non-binding resolution, including Sens. Kamala Harris. Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Kirsten Gillibrand and Cory Booker.

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