共和党领导的众议院周四未能推翻乔·拜登总统对一项决议的否决这本来可以防止退休基金经理考虑做出投资决策时的某些社会因素。
投票结果是219比200，支持推翻否决权，但需要三分之二的多数票。
缅因州众议员贾里德·戈尔登是唯一投赞成票的民主党人。15名成员没有投票。
众议院最初于2月28日在所有共和党人和戈尔登的支持下通过了H.J. Res. 30。它提出了环境、社会和治理(ESG)问题，特别是为了防止受联邦法律保护的退休基金经理将该策略纳入他们的计算中。
被批评者称为“觉醒的资本主义”的ESG已经成为保守派的主要目标，他们认为这对某些公司不公平，包括石油和天然气行业，对投资者也不利。该政策的支持者表示，该政策引导他们投资于他们认为有助于社会的问题，并反映了不断变化的趋势。
在拜登周一投了否决票后，众议院共和党人再次提起了这个问题。众议院多数党领袖史蒂夫·斯卡利斯。他说他的会议将继续反对ESG。
“众议院共和党人将继续努力推翻这一允许ESG投资的规则，并确保美国人尽可能获得最好的退休生活，而不是最清醒的退休生活，”这位领导人在他的每周楼层了望中写道。
2023年3月10日，美国众议院多数党领袖史蒂夫·斯卡利斯在华盛顿美国国会大厦大楼发表演讲。
Evelyn Hockstein/路透社，文件
但是投票推翻拜登的否决——众议院共和党在新国会中首次尝试这样做——总是不太可能成功。该法案需要众议院三分之二的支持才能进入参议院，参议院也需要三分之二的多数票。
虽然共和党在众议院占微弱多数，但共和党在参议院占少数。
在周四之前，戈尔登没有暗示他将如何努力推翻否决。他有反对党团成员的记录:他在上次国会投票反对众议院版本的重建得更好。
在ESG问题上采取立法行动之前，拜登领导下的劳工部规则于2月初生效，允许退休基金经理考虑ESG因素。但这是国会共和党人反对的一个问题，因为他们说考虑气候变化等非金融变量是错误的。
众议院共和党人很快提出了一项决议来阻止拜登政府的统治，该决议在国会两院获得了足够的支持。H.J. Res. 30在众议院通过后，在西弗吉尼亚州民主党参议员乔·曼钦(Joe Manchin)和蒙大纳州参议员乔恩·特斯(Jon Tester)的两党支持下，于3月1日在参议院通过。
拜登周一否决了这项措施，当时他表示，劳工部的规定“保护了全国数千万工人和退休人员来之不易的生活储蓄和养老金。”
House Republicans fail to override Biden's 1st presidential veto
The Republican-led House failed on Thursday to overridePresident Joe Biden's veto of a resolutionthat would have prevented retirement fund managers from accounting forcertain social factors when making investment decisions.
The vote was 219-200 in favor of overcoming the veto, but a two-thirds majority vote is needed.
Rep. Jared Golden of Maine was the only Democrat who voted yes. Fifteen members did not vote.
The House initially passed H.J. Res. 30 on Feb. 28 with the support of all Republicans and Golden. It took on the issue of environmental, social and governance (ESG), specifically to prevent retirement fund managers covered under federal law from including that strategy in their calculus.
ESG -- labeled by critics as "woke capitalism" -- has become a major target by conservatives who say it is unfair to certain companies, including in the oil and gas industry, and can be bad for investors. Supporters of the policy say it guides them to invest in issues they believe help society and reflects changing trends.
Following Biden's veto on Monday, the first of his presidency, House Republicans took up the issue again. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said his conference would continue to fight against ESG.
"House Republicans will keep fighting to overturn this rule allowing ESG investing and to make sure Americans are getting the best retirement they can, not the most woke," the leader wrote in his weekly floor lookout.
But the vote to override Biden's veto -- the House GOP's first attempt to do so in the new Congress -- was always unlikely to succeed. The measure needed two-thirds of the lower chamber's support to advance to the Senate, where it would also need a two-thirds majority vote.
While there is a slim Republican majority in the House, the GOP is in the minority in the Senate.
Before Thursday, Golden had not signaled what he would do on the effort to override the veto. He has a record of opposing members of his caucus: He voted against the House’s version of Build Back Better in the last Congress.
Legislative action on the ESG issue came after a Labor Department rule under Biden took effect at the beginning of February allowing retirement fund managers to consider ESG factors. But it is an issue Republicans in Congress oppose because they say it is wrong to consider non-financial variables, like climate change.
House Republicans quickly introduced a resolution to block the Biden administration's rule, which gained sufficient support in both chambers of Congress. After H.J. Res. 30 passed the House, it passed the Senate on March 1 with the bipartisan support of Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana.
Biden vetoed the measure on Monday, saying then that the Department of Labor's rule "protects the hard-earned life savings and pensions of tens of millions of workers and retirees across the country."
