The Senate voted Wednesday to overturn a landmark Transportation Department climate rule, arguing it exceeded the agency’s authority.
The White House fired off a veto threat as the Senate was starting to vote on the Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval. It also threatened to veto separate legislation against EPA’s tailpipe rule for cars and certain trucks.
The Transportation Department’s Federal Highway Administration rule on greenhouse gas emissions from state and local highway projects has already been blocked in federal court. That doesn’t mean lawmakers from both sides of the aisle were going to give up the chance to attach it.
The resolution, S.J. Res. 61, passed 53-47, with Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) voting with the GOP. Tester and Brown are in tough reelection fights.
