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Mitch McConnell, Jr.'s Public Statements on Issue: Environment

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03/04/2020 Tweet - "I'm grateful to @SenCoryGardner & Senator @SteveDaines for their strong leadership on securing funding for conserving our land and water."
02/14/2020 Tweet - "In divided government, we have to work on things we agree on. House Democrats' left-wing fantasies like the Green New Deal and Medicare-for-None are nonstarters."
02/10/2020 Tweet - "Heavy rainfall last week damaged homes, businesses, & infrastructure in Southeastern Kentucky. I'm grateful to the first responders who've helped many out of harm's way. My team and I stand ready to work with local officials in the recovery process."
11/05/2019 Democratic Legislation
10/23/2019 Capito, Senators Introduce Growing American Innovation Now Act
10/22/2019 Senators Introduce Growing American Innovation Now (GAIN) Act
09/24/2019 The United States House of Representatives
09/13/2019 Tweet - "As Majority Leader, one of my top priorities has been reining in the unfair, job-killing restrictions put in place by President Obama's EPA. One of the worst was the so-called "Waters of the U.S." rule."
09/12/2019 Senator McConnell Secures Funding for Important Energy and Water Infrastructure in Kentucky
09/03/2019 Tweet - "I hope the American people will look at the cold hard facts of what will happen if the Democrats' advocating for "The Green New Deal' and "Medicare for All' get power. Their goal is to turn America into a socialist country and that is not going to happen on my watch."
06/19/2019 Letter to Hon. Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, Hon.Charles Schumer, Senate Minority Leader, Hon. Charles E. Grassley, Chairmen of the Senate Finance Committee, and Hon. Ron Wyden, Ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee - Cortez Masto Urges Senate Leaders to Prioritize Clean Energy Tax Credits to Boost U.S. Solar Industry
03/27/2019 The Green New Deal
03/26/2019 Tweet - "The Senate voted on the Green New Deal today: 0 Yeas, 57 Nays, and 43 Senators voted PRESENT"
03/26/2019 Executive Session
03/26/2019 Tweet - "The Green New Deal, my Democratic colleagues' rallying cry: Killing off entire domestic industries. Winding down millions of jobs. Basically outlawing the only sources of energy that working-class and middle-class families can actually afford."
03/25/2019 Tweet - "I could not be more glad that the American people will have the opportunity to learn precisely where each one of their senators stand on the "Green New Deal": a radical, top-down, socialist makeover of the entire U.S. economy."
03/13/2019 Executive Session
03/13/2019 Tweet - "With the "Green New Deal," Democrats have simply taken the debunked socialist ideas of the last century, rolled them into one giant package, and thrown a little "green" paint on them to make them look new."
03/06/2019 Tweet - "Nothing encapsulates the Democrat's hard left turn towards socialism more than the "Green New Deal". One estimate pegs the cost of this centrally-planned nightmare at around $93 trillion. That's more than every dollar our federal government has spent in its entire history to date"
02/27/2019 Tweet - "One recent estimate says that Democrats' "Green New Deal" would cost taxpayers $93 trillion. That's more than the combined GDP of the entire world. #GreenNewDeal https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD …"
02/11/2019 McConnell Urges TVA to Keep Western Kentucky Coal Plant Open
01/24/2019 Leader McConnell Meets with EPA Nominee Andrew Wheeler
12/06/2018 Environmental Protection Agency
12/06/2018 Tweet - "Coal deserves a level playing field, not runaway regulation that will do little to actually help the environment. I applaud @POTUS and @EPA to end the War on Coal and bring relief to hardworking Kentucky families."
10/10/2018 S. 3021
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