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“It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.” Miracle Max,
The Princess Bride
The Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (“CPP”) an unprecedented use of the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions from power plants is only “mostly dead” and could soon spring back to life. Yes, the Supreme Court stayed the CPP in 2016. And yes, the Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy rule (“ACE”) repealed the CPP in 2019. Between those two actions, the CPP seemed “all dead.” But the Supreme Court’s stay has almost certainly been dissolved, and the D.C. Circuit is on the verge of vacating ACE’s repeal of the CPP. If and when that happens, the CPP will return to legal life. Whether and how the CPP stays dead has important consequences for the Biden administration
A dinner, a deal, and moonshine: how the stimulus came together
By Nicholas Fandos, Luke Broadwater and Emily Cochrane New York Times,Updated December 22, 2020, 12:53 a.m.
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US Senator Mark Warner (L), Democrat of Virginia, US Senator Lisa Murkowski (2nd L), Republican of Alaska, US Senator Mitt Romney (2nd R), Republican of Utah, and US US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (R), Democrat of New Hampshire, listened as a bipartisan group of Democrat and Republican members of Congress announced a proposal for a relief bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on December 1, 2020.SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
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A Dinner, a Deal and Moonshine: How the Stimulus Came Together Source: By Nicholas Fandos, Luke Broadwater and Emily Cochrane, New York Times • Posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Top party leaders cinched a $900 billion relief deal after laying down their swords. But it took an empowered, bipartisan group of moderates to help bridge the divide.
Senators Angus King of Maine, Mark Warner of Virginia, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Joe Manchin III of West Virginia before a news conference last week to introduce their pandemic relief bill.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
A week before Thanksgiving, a small group of moderate senators gathered in the spacious living room of Senator Lisa Murkowski’s home on Capitol Hill to embark on what they considered an urgent assignment.
When the moderates introduced their plan, the top Democrats saw their opportunity. They quickly embraced it as the easiest vehicle for jump-starting negotiations.
It was a major shift for the leaders, who had rejected Trump administration proposals twice as large, refusing to budge as the election approached even as they privately conceded that there was little momentum for a deal. During one call in late September, Ms. Pelosi had told Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that she had spent a sleepless night watching a rerun of “The Princess Bride,” the 1987 cult classic. She compared their negotiations to how Billy Crystal’s character, Miracle Max, describes a patient in the film who has been tortured to the brink of death, pronouncing them “mostly dead.”
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