Washington Post Quotes Chris Treanor on Failure of Manchin Bill

For its article “Senate GOP, liberal Dems find common cause: Sinking Manchin's bill,” The Washington Post quoted Akin Gump public law and policy counsel Chris Treanor. The article discusses the collapse in the U.S. Senate of Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) energy project permitting bill once it became apparent that it did not have the 60 votes needed to pass. The article attributes this to opposition from Republicans still stung by Sen. Manchin’s support of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and from liberal Democrats.

Treanor, who served on the professional staff for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, said that the bill’s failure reflects distrust on Capitol Hill at the moment. He added that the White House “is still cleaning up from the IRA celebrations and we are right before a midterm election. It’s a tough environment for bipartisanship around a new — or renewed — proposal.”