California wants to ban internal combustion vehicles in a few years. The House has voted to overturn that ban with the help of 35 Democrats.

Schumer desperately argued that a GAO memo should tie the Senate’s hands even though the GAO admits it has no role in the Congressional Review Act (CRA) process, once the EPA duly submitted the rule for review.

John Barrasso crushed the Schumer argument: “As I presented it to the conference: Either we uphold the Senate’s rights under the CRA, or do we provide the GAO with a veto over the Senate’s use of the CRA.”

Senate Democratic leaders are worried about a jailbreak and Democrats voting with Republicans in large numbers.

Kudos to GOP Senate Leader Thune. His great floor speech from yesterday on this is worth a watch: