Sen. Mitch McConnell, the next majority leader, said Friday that in
response to a "war on coal" waged by President Barack Obama, "I'm going
to go to war with him." He pledged that he and his fellow Republicans
would combat the White House "in any way that we can" in the next
Congress and signaled that a primary weapon will be using spending bills
to limit funding of the Environmental Protection Agency, which wants to
reduce carbon emissions.
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