Key Senate vote on taking up government funding to avoid shutdown clears hurdle after Sen. Manchin's sticking-point energy proposal was pulled.
The vote had earlier been on the verge of failing due to the inclusion of a controversial permitting reform proposal, but West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin dropped a request to include the proposal after it came under sharp criticism from Republicans and liberals. The Senate will next need to hold a final vote on the stop-gap funding bill.
“Unfortunately our Democratic colleagues decided to put in extraneous, partisan language – in fact, a poison pill.” He went on to say, “The poison pill is a phony attempt to address an important topic — permitting reform.” “I’ll be voting no and I would urge all my colleagues to vote no as well,” he said. Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said he will vote against the measure because of its inclusion of the Manchin plan.
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