The handful of Texas Democrats who have a penchant for defending the state’s oil and gas industry includes members of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee and representatives from some of the top oil producing, refining and transporting regions of the state.
Legislative text released by Senate Democrats proposes to retain a key climate program in their climate and social spending bill as they prepare to face the senate parliamentarian.
pass before christmas. cnn s capitol hill reporter melanie zanona standing by now. melanie, is this about changing it, trimming it back a little bit, from manchin and sinema, or is this about pushing this off? killing it? reporter: all of the above. they re not going to try to kill it, but they do want more time to consider this carefully. joe manchin is making clear that he wants serious changes made to the bill before it passes in the senate. among the concerns that he has are the paid family leave provisions, also the climate change provisions that include a methane fee. and also he has concerns generally about inflation and the cost of the bill including some of the budgetary gimmicks. there is changes that need to be made, they also will have to get a brand-new cost estimate and then whatever changes they make need to be approved by the house. clearly the likelihood of this passing by christmas is dwindling very quickly on capitol hill. you also have kyrsten sinema, another key
version they passed is not what he s working off of, because provisions in their at minimum that will probably go away, paid family leave is one, potentially the methane fee they ve got, you ve got a compromised state and local compromised bernie sanders doesn t like and they will have to take another vote in the house if it passes through the senate so she asked members to walk the plank as she has before and not with good outcome. paul: bill, immigration expansion is up to 6.5 million people getting a tenure reprieve who have been here since 2011, tax increases on small business, methane taxes my tax on natural gases, energy prices are increasing, a link between spending and inflation, these are add rights itself for
new bill after he found this bill. manu raju thanks for that play. let s bring in congressman henry cuellar of texas. last night you expressed concerns of the speaker adding back in paid leave on the build back better bill because of manchin s opposition to it. the speaker moving forward and the vote as soon as tonight and how are you going to vote? i certainly want to go ahead and move the ball forward but there was a promise made to us that we wouldn t move the bill without the 50 votes in the senate. that was an agreement made and it s unfortunate, that you know, this is happening right now but i still want to most ball forward. there s still concerns that some of us have, for example, on the methane fee, there are epa regulations that i think can handle that and there s some in zut texas and members of cox and