Us Senate Democrats Hand Mitch Mcconnell Rare Defeat On Climate Drug Bill
US Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, whose legislative skills have torpedoed many Democratic priorities, suffered a rare defeat himself this week when Democrats thwarted his plan to block their new energy and medicine bills 430 billion dollars. McConnell, who has spent nearly half of his 80 years in the Senate, had vowed to deny bipartisan support for a sweeping bill to subsidize the U.S. semiconductor industry while Democrats pursued major legislation to fight climate change and reduce the price of prescription drugs....