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Claim: Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal. (Byron Donalds, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2019-03-27): The Senate rejected the Green New Deal on Tuesday, in a decisive 57–0 vote that Democrats decried as a political stunt meant to divide their caucus. [...] Uniting the four dissenters: a sense that the Green New Deal, in its current form, is neither practical nor attainable. [...] In protest, 43 Democrats declined to oblige him, abstaining from the roll call and voting only "present." All six Senate Democrats openly running for president—that is, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, and Kirsten Gillibrand—co-sponsored the resolution but still voted present on it. Yet because of its four dissensions, the caucus still failed to mount a unified front.
Claim: Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal. (Byron Donalds, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-09-10): - Harris cosponsored S. 1806, the Child Care for Working Families Act, which would create new federal entitlement programs for child care. [...] - Harris called for tax hikes and new layers of harsh regulatory burdens on America’s energy producers that produce the fossil fuels that account for over 80 percent of the energy Americans use every day. Her energy agenda would introduce a destructive carbon tax to fund Green New Deal policies. [...] - In 2017, Harris was an original cosponsor of Bernie Sanders’ plan for free college, S.806, College for All Act of 2017.
Claim: Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal. (Byron Donalds, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-07-30): While she tempered her own positions as President Joe Biden’s No. 2, Harris’ older comments have drawn new scrutiny from Trump, who cited them over the weekend to cast his new opponent as an "ultra liberal." Harris’ U-turn represents a concrete movement toward the center by a former senator who once co-sponsored the Green New Deal, which called for quickly weaning the U.S. off fossil fuels and expanding clean power. And as California attorney general, she sued the Obama administration to stop plans to use fracking off the state’s coastline. [...] On Sunday, Harris’ campaign noted that while the Biden administration passed the largest-ever U.S. climate change legislation, America still "has the highest ever domestic energy production."
Claim: Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal. (Byron Donalds, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-08-30): From taking on fossil fuel companies to backing the Green New Deal, here is what Harris’s track record tells us about what she might do next. [...] "You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed - and I have worked on it - that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time. We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act," Harris said. [...] Another notable milestone on Harris’s climate CV: while serving as a California senator in 2019, she threw her support behind the Green New Deal as an early co-sponsor.
Claim: Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal. (Byron Donalds, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-10-01): Prof. Aseem Prakash and colleague Prof. Nives Dolšak in Forbes write about Kamala Harris's climate pragmatism. [...] Kamala Harris’ Evolving Climate Positions In 2016, California’s Attorney General Kamala Harris sued the Obama administration over permitting hydraulic fracturing. In 2019, Senator Harris co-sponsored the Green New Deal resolution. In the 2020 Presidential primaries, Candidate Harris said, "I’m committed to passing a Green New Deal, creating clean jobs and finally putting an end to fracking once and for all."
Claim: Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal. (Byron Donalds, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-08-26): That’s especially true for Pennsylvanians, particularly those living in the energy-rich northern and western parts of the state. Why? Because Kamala Harris is the most radical anti-energy presidential candidate in American history. In her failed 2019 presidential campaign, for example, Harris promised to completely ban fracking, telling CNN, "There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking." As a senator, Kamala Harris was one of the first co-sponsors of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s extreme Green New Deal, which mandates all Americans transition to 100% clean energy within the decade. And most recently, as vice president, Harris’ administration moved to take away Americans’ gas stoves, dishwashers and gas-powered cars.
Claim: Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal. (Byron Donalds, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2022-08-15): Kamala Harris was an original co-sponsor of the Green New Deal and has committed publicly to banning fracking. Since her time as a district attorney and then California’s Attorney General, she has repeatedly protected frontline communities and held polluting corporations in the fossil fuel industries to account. [...] Biden’s support for clean water goes back to his early days in the Senate, when he cosponsored the Ocean Dumping Act of 1988, which prohibited dumping of sewage and sludge. As district attorney and as California’s Attorney General, Harris took on polluters and won, including an indictment against an oil pipeline company for a spill of heavy crude oil.
Claim: Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal. (Byron Donalds, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-07-21): Where Kamala Harris stands on Green New Deal and climate initiatives [...] As a U.S. senator, Harris was an early co-sponsor of the Green New Deal, a non-binding blueprint for transitioning the country to 100% clean energy within a decade. The Green New Deal was first introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Edward Markey in February 2019. The climate proposal also includes job guarantees for displaced workers and a call for a national healthcare system. In 2019, as a candidate for president, Harris unveiled a plan to spend $10 trillion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with a goal of getting to a zero-emissions economy by 2045.
Claim: Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal. (Byron Donalds, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2020-10-07): Kamala Harris is the most radical, far-left vice presidential nominee in modern history, so it's no surprise that she has fully embraced the AOC's socialist, job-killing, anti-energy agenda known as the "Green New Deal." [...] The Green New Deal would dictate every aspect of our lives, eliminate consumer choice, decimate manufacturing and farming communities, and permanently crush the American economy -- and Kamala Harris fully embraced it. Harris is a cosponsor of the Green New Deal legislation in the Senate and was the first Democrat presidential candidate to endorse the Green New Deal.
Claim: Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal. (Byron Donalds, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-09-30): In 2016, California’s Attorney General Kamala Harris sued the Obama administration over permitting hydraulic fracturing. In 2019, Senator Harris co-sponsored the Green New Deal resolution. In the 2020 Presidential primaries, Candidate Harris said, "I’m committed to passing a Green New Deal, creating clean jobs and finally putting an end to fracking once and for all." [...] Now consider another policy issue: Electric Vehicles (EVs.) In 2019, Senator Harris co-sponsored the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act, which required "the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a zero-emission passenger vehicle standard. Specifically, the bill sets a schedule for increasing the percentage of zero-emission vehicles a manufacturer delivers for sale, culminating in a requirement to sell only zero-emission vehicles from 2040 on." In 2024, she does not support the EV mandate. [...] Democrats are supposed to be the pro-environment party that seeks vigorous climate action. Many of them sponsored the Green New Deal Resolution in the U.S. House and the Senate. They enacted the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest infusion of federal monies in climate policy.
Claim: Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal. (Byron Donalds, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2019-09-04): Sen. Kamala Harris of California said that if she’s elected president, she will back abolishing the filibuster if Senate Republicans stand in the way of legislation to combat climate change. [...] During Wednesday’s CNN climate crisis town hall, Harris slammed a Senate committee hearing "during which the underlying premise of the hearing was to debate whether science should be the basis of public policy," eliciting murmurs from the crowd. Harris said she would first seek to work with the GOP. However, she said, "if they fail to act, as president of the United States, I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to pass a Green New Deal."
Claim: Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal. (Byron Donalds, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2019-01-30): What's new: Sen. Kamala Harris has offered full-throated support for the Green New Deal, using phrasing that's less equivocal than prior statements from her office. "I support a Green New Deal. Climate change is an existential threat to all of us, and we have got to deal with the reality of it," she said on Twitter late Monday night. [...] It's a sign that Harris and some other backers are comfortable weaving energy and global warming into the fabric of their economic pitches. Even the term is a nod to the left with its callback to FDR.
Claim: Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal. (Byron Donalds, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-07-29): In the time since Harris declared in a CNN town hall that "there’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking" and offshore drilling and supported ending the Senate filibuster to enact the Green New Deal, a lot has changed. Most notably, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest climate change legislation in history. [...] "She co-sponsored the $100 trillion Green New Scam, with a goal of completely abolishing the oil, coal and natural gas industries, which would reduce the United States to a third-world country," Trump said at a rally in Charlotte this week. [...] "Even though media outlets have recapped Harris’ original sponsorship of the Green New Deal and the anti-fracking position she took during her 2020 Presidential run, we think those data points may not be ideal proxies for her future choices," the analysis firm told clients.
Claim: Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal. (Byron Donalds, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-07-22): Climate change is one of the hallmarks of Harris’ political career—an area of interest that can be traced back to her time suing oil giants as San Francisco’s district attorney and later attorney general. As a Senator, Harris was one of the early co-sponsors of the Green New Deal, a blueprint for clean energy transition introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Edward Markey. She also tried—and failed—to pass the Climate Equity Act, which called for an independent Office of Climate and Environmental Justice Accountability to support communities vulnerable to the climate crisis. [...] As Vice President, she has advocated publicly for climate action while engaging in behind-the-scenes conversations with officials to facilitate climate legislation, as well as attending private events with environmental leaders. Last December, while attending the COP28 climate summit, Harris announced a $3 billion pledge from the U.S. to the Green Climate Fund.
Claim: “Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.” (Facebook post, 2020-10-04)
Evidence (2020-10-04): The Wisconsin Legislature last passed a bill in April, almost 6 months ago This is normally a period in an election year where the Legislature is in recess, but this year is anything but normal. Only three state legislatures have passed fewer COVID-related bills since March than Wisconsin’s one. Every other full-time Legislature has met vastly more often.
Claim: “Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.” (Facebook post, 2020-10-04)
Evidence (2024-01-08): Bill Watch takes a closer look at what’s notable about legislation grinding its way through the Capitol. Subscribe to our newsletters for more from Wisconsin Watch. Legislative Republicans are at odds over bringing final five voting and ranked-choice voting to Wisconsin. On one side, a bipartisan group of lawmakers, led by Sen. Jesse James, R-Altoona, wants to bring both practices to the state’s congressional and U.S. Senate races. On the other side, Rep. Ty Bodden, R-Hilbert, and Sen. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville, are pushing a constitutional amendment that would outlaw both systems in the state. [...] - Why watch? Republicans have split their votes on certain issues — such as the Milwaukee Brewers stadium — but they don’t often introduce dueling proposals. The Senate Elections Committee held a public hearing on James’ final five voting bill in December. It’s not clear if the bills will advance further in the Senate this session, but a public hearing is further than any similar proposal has gotten. A spokesperson for committee chair Sen. Dan Knodl said a committee vote on the bill has not been scheduled.
Claim: “Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.” (Facebook post, 2020-10-04)
Evidence (2023-12-08): "Wisconsin Republicans have passed multiple billion dollar middle-class tax cuts this year, but each time we have, Governor Tony Evers has vetoed the relief," Bradley said. [...] Two other pieces of legislation — a bill and an amendment — also included Republicans’ proposed cut for that middle-class bracket. But those have failed to reach Evers for his signature or veto. [...] Bradley said "Wisconsin Republicans have passed multiple billion dollar middle-class tax cuts this year, but each time we have, Governor Tony Evers has vetoed the relief."
Claim: “Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.” (Facebook post, 2020-10-04)
Evidence (2024-01-23): MADISON, Wis. — Republican legislators in Wisconsin are trying one more time to pass a tax cut plan before they head home to campaign even though Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed their last two proposals. [...] Republicans have repeatedly called for tapping the state's surplus — which now stands at about $7 billion — to deliver tax relief. But Evers has stymied them each time they have tried to pass legislation. RELATED: Wisconsin GOP introduces bill to ban abortions after 14 weeks of pregnancy
Claim: “Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.” (Facebook post, 2020-10-04)
Evidence (2024-01-18): Wisconsin Republicans vote no but Congress passes short-term fix to avert partial shutdown [...] On Wednesday, Rep. Scott Fitzgerald told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he had concerns over passing a continuing resolution without border security policy. A day later, he joined the rest of the Wisconsin GOP delegation in opposition. [...] "They wasted seven months trying to pass extreme appropriations bills, not a single one of which has been signed into law or even taken up by the Senate," Pocan said. "Funding the government is the most basic function of Congress. It’s past time for Republicans to get serious and work with Democrats to fund the government for a full year instead of just a few weeks at a time."
Claim: “Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.” (Facebook post, 2020-10-04)
Evidence (2023-05-18): Wisconsin Assembly Republicans announced changes to their shared revenue plan at a press conference on the steps of the Capitol Wednesday afternoon. Just hours later, they passed the bill. (Baylor Spears | Wisconsin Examiner) [...] Just hours later, Assembly Republicans passed the amended bill, AB-245, despite the governor’s statement earlier in the day that there is more negotiation to come on the measure and a call from Democrats for the bill to be sent back to committee. Senate Republicans also have not signed on yet. [...] Rep. Evan Goyke (D-Milwaukee) criticized Republicans, who discussed the bill in private caucus for hours Wednesday afternoon before returning to announce the changes and pass the bill, for the way they’ve handled the process.
Claim: “Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.” (Facebook post, 2020-10-04)
Evidence (2020-10-07): Fact check: Wisconsin legislators have gone about 6 months without passing a bill [...] More: Fact check: Analysis bashing Wisconsin's COVID-19 calculations is mistaken "Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months," says the Oct. 4 post, which is a screenshot of a tweet from the day before. [...] Kit Beyer, a spokeswoman for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, noted that while the Legislature has not been in session, legislators have other work as well. In the past six months, she said, legislators have worked to help constituents with issues like getting unemployment benefits and have continued to meet in committees to prepare future legislation.
Claim: “Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.” (Facebook post, 2020-10-04)
Evidence (2021-03-30): Wisconsin Republicans passed one COVID bill before long period of inaction [...] In October, we rated True a claim that Wisconsin Republicans hadn’t passed a single bill in six months, a streak that ultimately ran through the end of the year. We noted Wisconsin lawmakers had done less than almost any other state to address the pandemic despite being one of just 10 full-time Legislatures in the nation. [...] PolitiFact Wisconsin, Yes, Wisconsin legislators haven’t passed a bill in 6 months, Oct. 7, 2020
Claim: “Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.” (Facebook post, 2020-10-04)
Evidence (2024-03-20): In what has become a nearly-annual occurrence at the state Capitol, the Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature have put the Assembly and Senate on a break within the first few months of the year—despite having full-time job status and an annual salary north of $50,000. [...] Surplus and Tax Cuts: Despite a record surplus that had grown to $7 billion at one point, Republicans refused to pass a tax cut plan that would pass on most of the savings to middle class families. Three different Republican packages put the bulk of the benefit into some of the state’s highest income brackets. Evers vetoed each one, including the most recent proposal that would have drained state revenue by $1.4 billion per year. Evers had asked lawmakers to pass a 10% tax credit for single filers with incomes of $100,000 or less and couples filing jointly with annual incomes of $150,000 or less—with the size of the cut phasing out at higher levels. [...] Other measures that appear dead include: Evers’ workforce plan that would have expanded paid family and medical leave, recruit and train people to fill worker shortages in healthcare and education; a gun safety proposal for college campuses; reinstituting the comprehensive health and sex education programs that Republicans replaced with an abstinence-only emphasis; creation of a task force on missing and murdered Black women; and a proposal to change how new electric transmission line projects are approved across the state.
Claim: “Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.” (Facebook post, 2020-10-04)
Evidence (2024-07-28): Wisconsin Republicans ask voters to take away governor’s power to spend federal money Wisconsin Republicans are asking voters to take away the governor’s power to unilaterally spend federal money, a reaction to the billions of dollars that flowed into the state during the COVID-19 pandemic. [...] Wisconsin Republicans have increasingly turned to voters to approve constitutional amendments as a way to get around Evers’ vetoes. Midway through his second term, Evers has vetoed more bills than any governor in Wisconsin history.
Claim: “Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.” (Facebook post, 2020-10-04)
Evidence (2024-01-10): Anthony Chergosky, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, said leaders of the Republican-controlled state Legislature are walking a fine line ahead of the 2022 election as they choose what bills to send to the governor for his signature. "Republicans are threading a needle," Chergosky said. "They don’t want to do too much, because they don’t want to enhance Gov. Tony Evers’ record going into his election campaign." [...] In 2019, former state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, compared the GOP-controlled Legislature to a "goalie" blocking Evers’ plans for state government and policy. Fitzgerald successfully ran for Congress in 2020 and now represents Wisconsin’s 5th Congressional District.
Claim: “Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.” (Facebook post, 2020-10-04)
Evidence (2024-01-24): Wisconsin Republicans make last-ditch effort to pass new legislative maps MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans made a last-ditch effort Tuesday to avoid having the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court put in place new legislative district boundaries for the November election. [...] And Assembly Republicans were discussing passing maps as proposed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers without any changes. That could stop the Wisconsin Supreme Court from ordering maps that were even worse for Republicans.
Claim: “Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.” (Facebook post, 2020-10-04)
Evidence (2023-09-12): MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly passed a nearly $3 billion income tax cut proposal Tuesday, despite promises from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to veto it. [...] Republican Rep. Terry Katsma said before the vote Tuesday that it was disappointing Evers had promised a veto even before the measure had a public hearing. [...] Republicans have instead introduced more modest child care proposals that the Assembly is slated to vote on Thursday.
Claim: “Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.” (Facebook post, 2020-10-04)
Evidence (2023-11-14): WASHINGTON – Nearly every Wisconsin House member on Tuesday helped push through legislation to temporarily extend federal funding and avert a government shutdown despite opposition from a block of Republicans clamoring for spending cuts and conservative policy provisions. [...] Wisconsin's five other House Republicans, however, voted in-line with their leadership. [...] Moore, who represents Milwaukee, in a statement after the vote derided Republicans for the chaos of the last few months and lamented the House was ot able to work earlier to find a long-term, bipartisan solution.
Claim: “Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.” (Facebook post, 2020-10-04)
Evidence (2020-10-04): Yes, Wisconsin legislators haven’t passed a bill in 6 months [...] "Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months," says the Oct. 4, 2020, post, which is a screenshot of a tweet from the day before. [...] A viral Facebook post says, "Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months," criticizing a lack of legislative action amid the coronavirus pandemic.