{"id":11614,"date":"2025-07-23T19:34:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/scalise-house-gop-will-pursue-permitting-reform-this-fall\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T19:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:34:38","slug":"scalise-house-gop-will-pursue-permitting-reform-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/scalise-house-gop-will-pursue-permitting-reform-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Scalise: House GOP will pursue permitting reform this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Wednesday that GOP leadership will work on advancing long-awaited permitting reform legislation this fall.<\/p>\n<p>The current &#8220;approach&#8221; is a standalone bill that, ideally, would be the product of a bipartisan deal with Democrats, Scalise said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot of interest in getting that done and Democrats in the past, some have said, \u2018We want to see permitting reform. Let&#8217;s give them that opportunity to help us get it done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman and other Republicans are <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/newsletter\/2025\/07\/the-newest-hurdle-to-permitting-talks-00468850\" target=\"_blank\">working<\/a> on the issue, but it\u2019s unclear if Democrats would strike an agreement with Republicans. Scalise said Republicans don\u2019t have a timeline for getting the bill done, but that several committees are working on it now.<\/p>\n<p>Major pieces of Republicans\u2019 last permitting reform effort didn\u2019t meet strict Senate rules to be included in Republicans\u2019 megabill that Trump signed into law this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Wednesday that GOP leadership will work on advancing long-awaited permitting reform legislation this fall. The current &#8220;approach&#8221; is a standalone bill that, ideally, would be the product of a bipartisan deal with Democrats, Scalise said in an interview. \u201cThere is a lot of interest in getting that done and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}