Posted on 09/08/2017 9:36:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee passed a spending bill on Thursday evening that includes $10 million to help fund the United Nations’ climate change body that oversees the Paris Climate Agreement, despite President Donald Trump’s decision to stop funding it.
The amendment passed 16-14. Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee voted in favor, as did all committee Democrats except for West Virginia’s Joe Manchin.
The 30-member Senate panel, which allocates federal funds to various government agencies and organizations, approved a $51 billion spending bill for the State Department and foreign operations, which included an amendment to continue funding the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change as well as the scientific body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
I remember lots of debate in the Reagan era about line item veto. Was the issue ever settled? I seem to recall a President could do something unilaterally that would bring the issue to a head.
Yeah, but keep ragging on European conservatives who are faced with the same type of feckless BS...pi$$es me off sometimes, it does...
Apparently the litter wall at the border doesn’t matter either.
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