The measure includes roughly $370B for climate change policies, including tax credits for electric vehicles and money for renewable energy programs. Democrats say these steps will cut greenhouse emissions by 40% from 2005 levels by the end of the decade.
. Democrats, meanwhile, have something to campaign on with less than three months left for the midterms, where they are expected to lose ground.
With less than three months from the midterms, Democrats are eager to move beyond their internal splits and tout the accomplishments they have been able to get through Congress in the past few months: bipartisan gun reform, a veterans health care bill and a legislation boosting semiconductor chip production in the U.S.
"Very few pieces of legislation will ever make the kind of impact that this climate bill will have, not just for the United States, but for the entire world," Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., said after the measure passed on the Senate floor.
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