Angus King: Losing climate provisions in reconciliation bill weakens Biden's hands in Glasgow
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) said on Sunday that losing climate provisions in the Democrats' multi-trillion dollar spending bill has weakened President Biden ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
Guest host Andrew Mitchell asked King on NBC's "Meet the Press" how he felt about Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who pushed against the climate provisions in the reconciliation bill.
"Listen, Joe is the chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. I'm on that committee. We've done a lot under his leadership on climate this year, on things like energy efficiency, on energy storage, which by the way, I think is the real key to a clean energy future," King said.
"And he's facilitated that. He's worked through it. He didn't like the provisions that were in the president's proposal. But I don't think that necessarily means that he's, you know, death on climate legislation," King continued. "I think there are other ways to approach this problem to get to the same result."
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