An amendment proposed by SenSanders would 'eliminate all of the fossil fuel giveaways' in Democrats' new reconciliation bill.
The Vermont senator will also introduce an amendment to strengthen the reconciliation bill's drug price reforms.Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Wednesday that he will be filing amendments to remove fossil fuel industry giveaways from Democrats' new reconciliation bill and strengthen the legislation's drug price provisions, which the Vermont senator has characterized as unacceptably weak.
"We have got to do everything possible to take on the greed of the fossil fuel industry, not give billions of dollars in corporate welfare to an industry that has been actively destroying our planet," Sanders said in his Wednesday speech."I will be introducing an amendment to do just that." Warren Gunnels, Sanders' staff director, the amendment would"eliminate all of the fossil fuel giveaways in the so-called 'Inflation Reduction Act,'" a proposed change that's sure to draw opposition from Manchin.that millions of acres of public lands be offered for oil drilling as a condition for new solar and wind development.
"It might seem a bit incongruous to people why we are rewarding the people whose emissions are driving the temperature of the Earth up and causing massive destruction," the senator said,"but that is in fact what this bill does."Sanders also said he intends to introduce an amendment that would ensure Medicare"pays no more for prescription drugs" than the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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