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Chair Jodey Arrington (R-TX) sponsored H.R. 1, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which would raise household energy costs for working families, kill hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs, and sell off our public lands to corporate polluters, all to provide tax breaks to billionaires and polluters. The bill would eliminate historic clean energy tax credits enacted in the Inflation Reduction Act that lower energy costs for working families, reduce dependence on fossil fuels, and power the American manufacturing resurgence. It eliminates the penalty for fossil fuel companies that fail to reduce their dangerous methane pollution while cutting funds to monitor, enforce, protect and improve air and water quality. It creates pay-to-play permitting schemes that would allow polluters to pay for permitting shortcuts and limit harmed communities from having a say in the process. In addition to cutting programs that lower costs in the first place, the bill cuts programs meant to provide assistance to those who need it most, including critical lifelines for millions of people like Medicaid and SNAP. It also directs billions of dollars to turbocharge mass deportations, militarize the border, fund immigration raids in schools and other community spaces, and tear families apart. On July 1, the Senate approved H.R. 1 by a vote of 51-50 (Senate roll call vote 372), with Vice President J.D. Vance’s tie-breaking vote. NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. The president signed H.R. 1, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as amended by the Senate, into law on July 4th.
**While our typical vote recommendations note that we will consider including votes in our Scorecard, in this instance we are stating unequivocally that we will score this extremely damaging legislation in our 2025 National Environmental Scorecard.
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