Vice President Kamala Harris has never met an issue she hasn’t flip-flopped on, but that should not stop the Republican Party from finding out where she stands on permitting reform. The Democratic Party can subsidize factory creation, energy production, and home construction all they want, but until real permitting reform is passed, taxpayers will be wasting billions of dollars and hundreds of years on waste and delays.

This past week, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee passed the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 on a 15-4 bipartisan basis. The legislation, co-sponsored by Chairman Joe Manchin (I-WV) and ranking member John Barrasso (R-WY), would ease resource extraction, renewable energy creation, and power transmission.