Cassidy, Whitehouse eye movement on bipartisan emissions tariff bill

Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) are looking to move quickly on a developing proposal for a fee on emissions-intensive imports, citing economic and geo-political incentives they believe could drive support for the measure -- including from the Trump administration. The two Senate Finance Committee members, who have floated different proposals for such fees, last week spoke about their efforts on a bipartisan bill during an event at the Capitol hosted by the think tank Silverado Policy Accelerator...