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“Too many buses spew dirty diesel. That hurts the workers, that hurts the commuters, that hurts everyone.”
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer joined with Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Chair Sherrod Brown brought forth The Clean Transit for America Plan which would invest $73 billion in electrifying public transit.
“Too many buses spew dirty diesel. That hurts the workers, that hurts the commuters, that hurts everyone,” says Schumer.
According to Common Dreams, the plan is intended to not only combat the climate emergency and improve air quality with zero-emission fleets, but also establish a workforce training program that will create well-paying union jobs. Schumer said he intends to ensure it is included in the American Jobs Plan, part of President Joe Biden’s recently introduced infrastructure proposal.
Democratic politicians and liberal economists argue that the climate regulations associated with the Paris Climate Agreement will spur new growth and will not cause high levels of unemployment. During his confirmation hearing, Secretary of Transportation nominee Pete Buttigieg said that the Biden Administration’s “climate vision will create, on net, far more jobs. Millions we hope.”
.@tedcruz on the Keystone Pipeline to Pete Buttigieg: “With the stroke of a pen, President Biden has told those 11,000 workers, those union workers, ‘Your jobs are gone.’ Mr. Buttigieg, what do you say to those workers whose jobs have just been eliminated by presidential edict?” pic.twitter.com/QmQnjmuFBm
McConnell Continues to Refuse Reconvening Senate Following House Impeachment
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell looks on in the House chamber during a reconvening of a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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After just 10 House Republicans joined with Democrats in a historic vote Wednesday that made President Donald Trump the only U.S. president ever to be impeached twice, a diverse collection of political figures and advocacy groups delivered a clear message to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: “Finish the job.”
That call was the subject of an email that Rev. Lennox Yearwood, founder and president of the Hip Hop Caucus, sent to supporters following the vote. As Yearwood put it: “Trump and his minions are rioting because WE voted, and we are WINNING across the country. We did our job at the voting booth. The House did its job today. Now it’s time for the Senate to do the job it was elected to do, and to remo