Sen. John Hickenlooper was credited in Politico, the New York Times and Axios for keeping negotiations going with Manchin, even after much speculation that the deal was dead.
for keeping negotiations going with Manchin, even after much speculation that the deal was dead. The League of Conservation Voters called Hickenlooper “invaluable,” a position echoed by the Environmental Defense Action Fund, in keeping hopes alive on fighting climate change.announced agreement
“A lot of people gave up a couple of weeks ago, when Joe Manchin said he had enough and he wasn’t going to keep working on it,” Hickenlooper said in an interview with the Denver Post Thursday. “And yet every time I talked to him, he said he was committed to still trying to find a solution.” It also establishes a 15% minimum corporate tax rate, allows Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices and increases funding for the Internal Revenue Service so it has more resources to “make sure the people cheating on their taxes are held responsible,” Hickenlooper said.
The potential impacts of the bill “are really challenging to understate,” he said, calling Hickenlooper’s efforts “essential” to where it is. Likewise, League of Conservation Voters Senior Vice President of Campaigns Pete Maysmith called Hickenlooper’s work “invaluable” on a bill that, while a compromise, is still “the strongest federal climate legislation that’s ever gotten this far.”
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