10 House Blue Dog Democrats endorse the Senate's bipartisan permitting bill as environmental groups organize to kill it

A transcript of the opponents' call quotes an organizer saying the goal is "to stop this bill, not to make it better."

How the last four permitting pushes ended: 2005: Congress let FERC override states that stall on power lines; a federal appeals court gutted that power in 2009, and FERC has never used it 2022: Joe Manchin's permitting deal was stripped from a September funding bill after it could not reach 60 votes 2024: The Barrasso-Manchin bill cleared committee 15-4 and died with no floor vote

ContextShelley Moore Capito (Sen-R West Virginia), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) introduced the 417-page bill Sept. 30; it cuts the window to sue over a project to 150 days from up to six years now and lets FERC (the federal grid regulator) approve a power line a state has stalled on for a year. It needs 60 Senate votes, and no vote will come before the Nov. 3 midterms.

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