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John Podesta’s résumé includes stints arsenic main of unit to President Bill Clinton and counsellor to President Barack Obama. Now the seasoned Democratic powerfulness broker is taking connected what mightiness beryllium his hardest occupation yet: implementing President Biden’s landmark clime law.

Writing successful The Climate 202, The Post’s Maxine Joselow notes that Podesta, 73, returned to the White House successful September to oversee implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act, which authorized the biggest burst of spending successful the nation’s past to bolster cleanable vigor and curb planet-warming emissions. Per Maxine:

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who mounted an unsuccessful enactment situation this period to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), is continuing to impeach “establishment” enactment members of “routinely caving in” to Democrats and failing to articulate a argumentation agenda.

“I ran for Senate person due to the fact that the existent program of routinely caving successful and allowing [Senate Majority Leader Charles E.] Schumer [D-N.Y.] and [President] Biden to triumph indispensable halt and due to the fact that we indispensable go a enactment with a program to rescue America … ” Scott wrote successful an op-ed published successful the Washington Examiner. “The aged Washington constitution Republican way of ne'er having a imaginativeness is over, it’s dying. A caller question of bold and assertive Republicans who volition basal up and combat is demanding alteration from our leaders successful Washington.”

With 5 weeks until the caller Congress convenes, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is pressing up with his bid for talker contempt being abbreviated of the indispensable Republican votes, and helium is informing that Democrats could beryllium a deciding origin if his GOP colleagues don’t rally astir him.

“We person to talk with 1 voice. We volition lone beryllium palmy if we enactment together,” McCarthy said during an quality Monday connected Newsmax. “If we play games connected the floor, the Democrats could extremity up picking who the talker is.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has ordered the flags astatine the U.S. Capitol to beryllium flown astatine half-staff pursuing the decease of Rep. A. Donald McEachin (D-Va.).

McEachin died Monday, conscionable weeks aft winning reelection to Congress, his bureau announced. He was 61.

McEachin had represented Virginia’s 4th District, which stretches from Richmond to the North Carolina line, since 2017. Before that, helium had served 9 years arsenic a authorities legislator and 8 arsenic a delegate, The Post’s Laura Vozzella and Meagan Flynn write. Per our colleagues:

Congress’s lame-duck to-do database conscionable got longer.

Writing successful The Early 202, The Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer enactment that determination already was a bully accidental Congress would person to intervene successful negotiations betwixt unions and railroad companies arsenic a imaginable onslaught looms arsenic aboriginal arsenic Dec. 9. But lawmakers were reluctant to enactment oregon accidental thing until President Biden offered direction. Per our colleagues:

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The Senate connected Tuesday is poised to walk authorities that seeks to support same-sex marriages successful the lawsuit that the Supreme Court overturns a landmark 2015 ruling that legalized them nationwide.

The Respect for Marriage Act would necessitate that radical beryllium considered joined successful immoderate authorities arsenic agelong arsenic the matrimony was valid successful the authorities wherever it was performed.

The measure would besides repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which defined matrimony arsenic the national of 1 antheral and 1 pistillate and allowed states to diminution to admit same-sex marriages performed successful different states.

President Biden is heading Tuesday to Bay City, Mich., to tout the maturation of manufacturing jobs during his tenure.

The sojourn to a statesmanlike battleground authorities could presage what voters mightiness perceive from Biden if helium seeks reelection successful 2024, arsenic helium has said is his intention.

Biden is scheduled to look astatine an SK Siltron CSS installation that makes semiconductor wafers utilized successful electrical vehicles. Last year, the institution announced a $300 cardinal enlargement successful Michigan operations, a determination that is expected to quadruple accumulation capableness successful coming years and make up to 150 jobs, according to the White House.

Vexed by different drawstring of wide shootings, President Biden has begun calling vociferously connected Congress to walk a prohibition connected battle weapons contempt the highly debased likelihood that it volition enact specified a prohibition — a reflection of however helium whitethorn question to usage Republicans arsenic a foil present that a GOP takeover of the House is putting his legislative goals further retired of reach.

The Post’s Toluse Olorunnipa writes that the president’s declaration that it is “just sick” that the United States allows the merchantability of semiautomatic weapons, coming aft shootings successful a Walmart successful Virginia and an LGBTQ nine successful Colorado near a combined 11 radical dead, does not bespeak immoderate illusions astir the realities of divided government, according to statesmanlike aides. Per our colleague:

Former vice president Mike Pence and galore Republican lawmakers connected Monday criticized Donald Trump for eating with achromatic nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Ye, some of whom person a past of antisemitic remarks, marking a uncommon interruption with Trump successful the precocious echelons of the GOP.

The Post’s Amy B Wang, Mariana Alfaro and Liz Goodwin study that Pence was astir wide successful his condemnation, saying in an interview with NewsNation: “President Trump was incorrect to springiness a achromatic nationalist, an antisemite and a Holocaust denier a spot astatine the table. I deliberation helium should apologize for it, and helium should denounce those individuals and their hateful rhetoric without qualification.”

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