The Green New Deal -- mostly a collection of goals for mitigating climate change rather than a fully formed plan of action -- has been a favorite punching bag for McConnell and Republicans since it was rolled out with fanfare by freshman Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey.
-- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is commandeering the Democrats’ Green New Deal in an attempt to expose their divisions and force some of the party’s leading 2020 presidential candidates into an awkward vote.
“Let’s not do a sham vote that’s meant to embarrass one person or another,”’ Schumer said on the Senate floor Monday. “This is too serious an issue for that. Republicans owe the American people some real answers, not games.” McConnell’s ploy of holding a doomed-to-fail show vote that forces the minority party to take a stand on one of their controversial proposals has a long history in the Senate.Former Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, used the tactic in 2011 when he forced Republicans to vote on a Medicare voucher program proposed by Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan, who was then the House Budget chairman.
Booker has called the Green New Deal"bold," and Harris has said it’s"an investment" worth the cost. Klobuchar, however, described it as simply"aspirational" and a"jump-start" when asked about it recently.
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