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Excerpt from thehill.com
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday threw cold water on the prospects of reaching a deal to speed up the nation’s energy projects, saying that reaching a Senate deal on permitting reform would be “virtually impossible.”
Lawmakers have been working for nearly two years to come up with such an agreement, which would speed up the process by which energy and other infrastructure projects are approved.
But Schumer expressed doubt that it would actually get done this year.
“I’m happy to listen, but I’ve told Joe Manchin it’s going to be virtually impossible to get something done,” Schumer said, referring to the Democratic senator from West Virginia who is retiring at the end of this Congress.
Lawmakers have long been at an impasse on permitting reform.
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