Posted on 05/10/2017 8:52:23 AM PDT by ColdOne
Three Republicans joined Senate Democrats on Wednesday to reject an effort to overturn an Obama administration rule limiting methane emissions from oil and natural gas drilling.
Only 49 senators voted to move forward with debate on legislation to undo the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rule, short of the 51 votes needed.
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) joined all 48 members of the Democratic caucus in rejecting the resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA).
Graham and Collins had previously publicized their plans to vote against the legislation. But McCain’s vote came as a surprise.
McCain said that he voted against the resolution because he fears that it would have prevented the BLM from writing an improved regulation in the future.
“While I am concerned that the BLM rule may be onerous, passage of the resolution would have prevented the federal government, under any administration, from issuing a rule that is ‘similar,’ according to the plain reading of the Congressional Review Act,” he said in a statement.
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A hole McCain is front and center again.
mccain is just being a grumpy, semi-senile obstructionist a$$hate.
McCain voted against it because he didn’t want to go against his Senate wife.
The usual RINOcrat floaters in the Senate cesspool.
MOTHER ####ER!!!!!!
I HATE THOSE SONS OF B.TCHES SO MUCH!
HOW THE #### DO THEY WIN THEIR PRIMARIES?!?!
Well we know whose feet to put to the fossil fuel fire now.
The Uniparty strikes again!
The Traitor Caucus, led by Traitor McCain.
No it’s MUCH MORE than that.
He is IN BED with the left and has been stealing since S&L and likely before.
He’s a worthless piece of #### who doesn’t deserve to be buried with other soldiers.
Just hate these vermin. Don’t give a damn why they are defecting - just plain hate them and want them removed from office - all of them.
Damn destructive vermin. Democrats NEVER do this. A “big tent” is a farce.
Citizens of Arizona, Maine and South Carolina: You must perform your patriotic duty to America by removing these people from their positions of power and trust.
Perfect!
McAmnesty must have gotten a call from Chuckie his blackmailer.
McCrazy and Graham should be stripped of their committee appointments. Traitorous bastards!!!
They would not have had the vote if thy thought McCain was going to change his vote. He lied to McConnell, who thought they might need the Vice President to break a tie, then McCain changed his vote.
What a piece of work.
The Democrats must have some spectacular blackmail stuff on them acquired while it was Obama’s watch.
But if this is about methane why is it a problem? Methane is generally burned off where leaked and not practical to capture.
Global warmism scares are the problem. I don’t know why we won’t find someday that certain earth bacteria scarf down methane and serve as counterbalance to atmospheric methane. People act like this terrestrial ball is dead, not teeming with life.
Exhibit “A” as to why the swamp never really gets drained.
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