Anti-ESG House Bills Struggle to Clear Competing GOP Priorities

A key House Republican voice for the anti-environment, social and governance movement said he still sees multiple ways to advance at least a few ESG-related measures that have languished since clearing his committee over the summer, but the window to act is narrowing.

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, acknowledged he has no definitive strategy on securing a floor vote for three anti-ESG bills reported out of his panel in July—dubbed as “ESG month.” Yet lawmakers have a “a waterfall of options” to get the legislation across the finish line, McHenry said. “It’s been the ...