Senate Votes Against Attaching Manchin’s Pro-Oil and Gas Energy Bill to Defense Funding Legislation
(Left) President Joe Biden speaks at Delaware State University in Dover, Del., on Oct. 21, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images); (Right) Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) speaks at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sept. 20, 2022. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
The Senate on Dec. 16 blocked Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) attaching amended legislation promoting oil and gas drilling to the National Defense Authorization Act, despite President Joe Biden’s support for it.
Manchin was striving to get his energy measure attached to the defense funding bill, but the 47–47 vote defeated that objective. Sixty votes were required to advance the measure.
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