Southern West Virginia News

Today, Congresswoman Carol Miller’s (R-WV) Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal the Biden Administration’s Electric Vehicle Credits rule passed through the Ways and Means Committee. Congresswoman Miller introduced the bipartisan, bicameral act to void the Clean Vehicle Credits rulemaking from the Department of Treasury with Congressman Jared Golden (D-ME) and Senators Deb Fischer (R-NE) and Joe Manchin (I-WV).

“I am grateful that my Congressional Review Act passed through the Ways and Means Committee. Republicans and Democrats are working together to stand up to the Biden Administration’s abysmal and un-American policies that harm our citizens and the economy. The Department of Treasury’s horrible Electric Vehicle Credits regulations elevate China at the expense of our own taxpayers and manufacturing industries. My CRA will force the Biden Administration to fix this rule and stop China from accessing American tax credits. I am confident that my colleagues in the House of Representatives will also recognize what is at stake if we continue to allow foreign entities to financially benefit from bad regulations and will vote in support of the CRA to prevent this from happening,” said Congresswoman Miller.

Under the CRA, the Biden Administration would have to re-write the regulations in a substantially different manner, which would force them to exclude adversaries from receiving American tax credits.

“Treasury has written ‘traceability’ rules seemingly out of thin air, which circumvents the important Foreign Entity of Concern language written into certain sections of the poorly developed IRA. These traceability rules allow the Administration to directly subsidize Chinese inputs for electric vehicles using American tax dollars, specifically against both the letter and spirit of the law. When voting for this Congressional Review Act, the choice is clear: a vote in favor is a vote for American manufacturers, the American mining industry, and American taxpayers. A vote against is a vote for Chinese billionaires and Chinese corporations who already have too much influence over our nation’s economy,” said Congresswoman Miller.