Senate Votes Against Attaching Manchin’s Pro-Oil and Gas Energy Bill to Defense Funding Legislation
The Senate on Dec. 16 blocked Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) attaching amended legislation promoting oil and gas drilling to the National Defense Authorization Act, despite President Joe Biden’s support for it.
Manchin was striving to get his energy measure attached to the defense funding bill, but the 47–47 vote defeated that objective. Sixty votes were required to advance the measure.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) had told Manchin he would force a vote about the legislation to accelerate the approval process of new U.S. energy projects in exchange for Manchin’s support on the Inflation Reduction Act, which contains $369 billion for climate and clean energy….