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It’s Magenta May Day, and Sen. Sheldon Whithouse’s (D-R.I.) Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change hearing is today at 9 am.

My favorite exchange in the newly revealed Big Oil documents is between a Reuters reporter and ExxonMobil flak Alan Jeffers:

In another private email, Jeffers admitted that ExxonMobil has worked both to disrupt climate science and to block climate policy:

Watch the hearing at the Senate Budget Committee website.

Other Democrats on Capitol Hill seem to think the way to win in November is to get a little friendlier with fascism. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) went to the Senate floor last night to praise the police-state takedown of the student protesters at Columbia University, saying they should “promptly face the consequences.”

In a similarly embarrassing move, the Democratic House leadership—Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.)—announced they would vote to protect oil theocrat Mike Johnson (R-La., no relation) as House Speaker. Sure, keeping the House is order is important, but House Democrats should be convincing two Republicans to join their caucus instead of propping up this guy:

Budget hearings today:

• Secretary Deb Haaland will defend the $18 billion Department of Interior budget before the House Natural Resources Committee at 10 am.

• Secretary Jennifer Granholm discusses the $51.42 billion Department of Energy budget with a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee at 10 am.

• Acting Housing and Urban Development Secretary Adrianne Todman explains the $72 billion HUD budget to House appropriators Wednesday morning at 10 am. The budget includes about $1 billion in climate resilience, energy efficiency, and lead removal programs.

• Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan reviews the the $11 billion EPA budget request with Senate appropriators at 2 pm.

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Hearings on the Hill:

• 9 AM: Senate Budget
  Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change

• 9:45 AM: Senate Environment and Public Works
  Renomination of Christopher T. Hanson, Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and S. 3738 to reauthorize the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

• 10 AM: House Energy and Commerce
  Energy, Climate, and Grid Security
  The Fiscal Year 2025 Department Of Energy Budget

• 10 AM: House Appropriations
  Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
  Budget Hearing – Fiscal Year 2025 Request for the Department of Housing and Urban Development

• 10 AM: House Natural Resources
  Examining the President's FY 2025 Budget Request for the Department of the Interior

• 10 AM: House Appropriations
  State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
  Member Day - State, Foreign Operations And Related Programs

• 1 PM: House Appropriations
  Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
  Budget Hearing – Fiscal Year 2025 Request for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) Mission Area

• 2 PM: Senate Appropriations
  Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
  A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the Environmental Protection Agency

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