{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=BD81436F-7E03-44CF-ACD4-84665EF2F697", "China Wins Big With Biden Admin. Climate Agenda", "2023-11-09", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Mitch McConnell", "M000355", "www.mcconnell.senate.gov", "mcconnell", "https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding left-wing climate policy:\n\n\u201cFor three years, the Biden Administration\u2019s radical climate agenda has laid siege to affordable American energy and American consumer choice.\n\n\u201cSlashed development of abundant domestic energy reserves. Soaring prices for gas and heating oil. And a thicket of new regulations from unelected bureaucrats \u2013 from construction permitting to home appliances.\n\n\u201cAnd as the President\u2019s policies made life harder for working Americans, prominent Democrats took the Administration\u2019s green obsession on the road.\n\n\u201cSpecial Climate Envoy John Kerry went to China hoping to treat climate goals as a \u2018free standing\u2019 issue from our major strategic competition. Unsurprisingly, the PRC saw things differently, and Chairman Xi stated publicly that China had no plans to stop increasing its carbon emissions for at least another seven years.\n\n\u201cMeanwhile, the Governor of California took his own trip to Beijing and pledged to PRC officials that, \u2018regardless of what happens nationally, sub-nationally, you have a partner in California.\u2019\n\n\u201cWell, Mr. President, they sure do. In fact, the supply chains for some of coastal liberals\u2019 favorite green fashions like electric vehicles run directly through China.\n\n\u201cClose to 75% of lithium batteries \u2013 as well as 70% of the cathodes and anodes required to produce these batteries \u2013 come from China. The PRC holds more than 50% of the processing and refining capacity for critical minerals like cobalt.\n\n\u201cBy all relevant measures, the United States lags dangerously behind. But earlier this year, the Biden Administration decided to make bringing these critical supply chains home even more difficult by waiving \u2018Buy American\u2019 requirements materials used to make electric vehicle chargers.\n\n\u201cApparently, the Administration is so desperate to force its radical climate agenda, it\u2019s willing to enrich America\u2019s single biggest strategic adversary to get there!\n\n\u201cWashington Democrats so badly want to force working Americans to drive blue state millionaires\u2019 favorite electric cars that they\u2019re willing to cut communist China in on the profits.\n\n\u201cFortunately, the Senate had an opportunity yesterday to set things straight. Thanks to the leadership of Senator Rubio, a bipartisan majority voted to block the Biden Administration\u2019s waiver policy using the Congressional Review Act.\n\n\u201cApparently, the President\u2019s radical climate agenda is too radical for several members of his own party. Hopefully, he\u2019ll listen to them soon.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:49:58Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=BD81436F-7E03-44CF-ACD4-84665EF2F697"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6542626544833183, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}