Pelosi underscores climate focus of budget reconciliation bill

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is underscoring that Democrats plan to make climate change policy a large focus of their forthcoming budget “reconciliation” package, saying the legislation will expand on the “very minor” climate aspects of a Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure deal. The reconciliation bill will be “addressing the climate crisis in a way that was not addressed at all in the infrastructure bill -- very minor, just electrification, and just other [issues] -- electrification is important, but it is not...