Senate wins bolster Biden’s energy agenda
The Democrat victories in Georgia dramatically change the political picture but do not pose an existential threat to the shale patch
US president-elect Joe Biden is in a stronger position to pursue his legislative agenda following the Democrats’ double victory in the Georgia Senate runoff elections in the first week of January. The resulting 50-50 Democratic/Republican split in the Senate means incoming Vice-President Kamala Harris' tie-breaking vote gives her party control by the narrowest of margins. But the Senate upset does not entirely remove all the hurdles ahead for Biden. “The narrow majority the Democrats have secured in the Senate is still well short of the 60+ seats they would need for a filibuster-proof majority that would allow them to get Biden’s proposed $2tn climate plan or other ambitious legislation appr
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