Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will stage a show vote on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal Tuesday in what Democrats call a 'sham' move and they plan to vote 'present' to thwart his plans.
And Republican Sen. Mike Lee mocked the deal viciously on the Senate floor Tuesday including using props and photos - including one of a seahorse - to make his point.
He claimed the Green New Deal wants to eliminate airplanes - a likely reference to its goal to end reliance on fossil fuels - and suggested states like Hawaii would have to use a fleet of sea horses to travel instead.
Standing next to a large photo of Aquaman riding a sea horse, Lee ridiculed Ocasio-Cortez's signature plan.
'Under the Green New Deal, this is probably Hawaii's best bet,' he said.
He conceded that 'a massive fleet of giant, highly trained sea horses would be cool, it would be really awesome. But we have no idea about scalability or domestic capacity.'
Republican Sen. Mike Lee mocked The Green New Deal on the Senate floor Tuesday
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will stage a show vote on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed the majority leader for holding a 'bluff vote'
McConnell put the vote on the calendar to force Democrats, including a slew of 2020 presidential contenders, to go on the record about the progressive plan in a vote that he knew would fail.
But Democrats' plan to counter his maneuver with one of their own: they will vote 'present' - which does not count towards or against passage but does contribute to the quorum, meaning the lawmaker does not have a missing vote on their record.
The deal has no chances of passing the Senate, where Republicans hold a majority of 53 seats, meaning the legislation will not get the 60 votes it needs to proceed in the legislative process.
Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, the principle sponsor of the legislation in the Senate, called McConnell's move a 'sham.'
He said Tuesday that the GOP leader 'wants to sabotage calls for climate action.'
And Ocasio-Cortez slammed the majority leader for holding a 'bluff vote.'
'The GOP's whole game of wasting votes in Congress to target others 'on the record', for leg they have no intent to pass, is a disgrace. Stop wasting the American peoples' time + learn to govern. Our jobs aren't for campaigning, & that's exactly what these bluff-votes are for,' she wrote on Twitter on Friday.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer made the move to counter McConnell by having his Democratic senators vote 'present' on the plan.
He called the move a 'political stunt.'
'With this exercise, the Republican Majority has made a mockery of the legislative process. It is a political act, a political stunt. Everyone here knows it’s a stunt, including the Majority Leader himself. He put something on the floor and then votes no. What’s the point of that other than showing how hypocritical this act is?,' Schumer said Tuesday on the Senate floor.
'But with this exercise, they have also elevated the issue in a way I am sure they never intended. And for that, I want to thank them because now we’re finally talking about climate change,' he added.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a presidential contender who is a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal legislation, also called it a 'sham' vote on Tuesday and said the 'GOP is treating this like a political stunt, they are treating climate change like a game.'
She said she will vote 'present.'
All the presidential contenders in the Senate have signed on as co-sponsors of Ocasio-Cortez's signature legislation: Sens. Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Gillibrand.
The only question mark among Democrats is Sen. Joe Manchin, who has said he is a 'no' vote on the legislation. Manchin represents the swing state of Wes Virginia and was one of the few senators who won his reelection campaign in 2018 while running in a state President Donald Trump carried in the presidential contest.
McConnell plotted his crafty move as a way to force Senate Democrats to vote their view - a potential on-the-record move Republicans could exploit in the coming election.
The move would also pit the moderate wing of the party against its left flank, a battle Democrats will be fighting in the upcoming presidential primary.
McConnell slammed Democrats for moving to the left on a host of issues.
'This whole Democrat effort to re-brand all the failed ideas of 20th century socialism with a little green paint - every member of this body will have the opportunity to cast a clear vote,' McConnell said Monday on the Senate floor.
He continued his barrage on Tuesday.
'The Senate is going to vote on the far-left wish list that many of our Democratic colleagues have rushed to embrace – the so-called Green New Deal. For a relatively sparse resolution, this proposal has already traveled quite a fascinating path here in Congress. It originated with the most radical, farthest-left members of the new House Democrat majority,' he said on the Senate floor.
Republicans have slammed the Green New Deal.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said it was necessary to get 'every senator on the record.'
She brushed aside accusations from Democrats that Republicans were playing a political game with the vote.
‘Well the Green New Deal is a political game, so, if they don’t like it, they can vote against it,' she said at the White House. 'But the voters of each and every one of their states has a right to know whether their U.S. senator thinks the Green New Deal is the way to go when it comes to energy policy, infrastructure, blowing a hole through our budget.'
Lee said people will have to ride sea horses because the Green New Deal will ban airplanes
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is asking his party to vote 'present'
And the National Republican Senatorial Committee is using Ocasio-Cortez in attacks ads similar to how the GOP has used Speaker Nancy Pelosi in these type of ads for years.
In a tweet attacking Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas, who is considering a run against Republican Sen. John Cornyn, the NRSC said Castro 'votes with AOC 94% of the time.'
The Green New Deal is a statement of goals and doesn't make specific policy proposals, nor does it specify how it would pay for its ambitious plans.
The plan aims to slow climate change by ending the reliance on fossil fuels within 10 years; to upgrade power grids and existing buildings for maximum energy efficiency; to overhaul transportation systems; and to provide every American with a job and health care.
The conservative American Action Forum estimated the Green New Deal will cost $93 trillion. Other organizations have found the deal too vague to get a full cost although Forbes estimated just six of the goals would roughly cost $2.5 trillion a year.
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Main photo article Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will stage a show vote on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Tuesday in what Democrats call a ‘sham’ move and they plan to vote ‘present’ to thwart his plans.
And Republican Sen. Mike Lee mocked the deal viciously ...
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