'Brazenly Corrupt Handout': Here's Why Senate Republicans Just Bypassed the Filibuster

Senate Republicans killed the filibuster. Good

Senate Republicans voted Wednesday night to strip California of its right to set its own auto-emissions standards, a move that blocked vehicle standards that would phase out gas-powered cars. It’s an outrageous move—hostile to climate action, defiant...

'Brazenly corrupt handout': Here's why Senate Republicans just bypassed the filibuster

Senate Republicans late Wednesday made use of arcane procedural maneuvers to bypass the chamber's 60-vote filibuster and move ahead with a measure to overturn federal waivers that allowed California to set tougher vehicle pollution standards.The 51-46 party-line vote came after the Senate parliamentarian, the unelected arbiter of the chamber's procedures, said that the Environmental Protection Agency waivers issued at the tail-end of the Biden a…

Senate Republicans Bypass Filibuster to Advance 'Brazenly Corrupt Handout to Big Polluters'

"Senate Republicans have now set the stage to potentially do the same thing in service of adding nongermane, devastating policy provisions to their horrific reconciliation bill," one watchdog warned.