Joe Mancin talks too much, and he has stock in coal, and there is still lots of coal in West Virginia, which is why he betrayed President Biden by telling Fox News that he’ll vote no on the President’s most important domestic legislation, which includes considerable umph on climate change.
All this makes senator Mancin the most powerful Democratic senator these days.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (talk about senators who represent Coal Country) and his allies want Mancin to join them, only Mancin won’t, because he already has more than enough power.
For this brief brief edition of our AP, we had no need to bring in our Chief Legislative Correpondent, associate solitary reporter Melissa Smith.