nytimes.com - 19 days ago
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Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Democrats quashed a three-day-long Republican boycott and passed global warming legislation today using a procedural move that could undermine support from moderate senators if the bill reaches the floor. Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and 10 ...
reuters.com - 20 days ago
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reuters.com —
Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A controversial climate
change bill cleared its first hurdle in the U.S....
Senate on Thursday, allowing President Barack Obama to tout progress in the run-up to next month's global warming talks in Copenhagen. ...
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Senate panel approves Democratic climate bill
politico.com - 19 days ago
thinkprogress.org - 21 days ago
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thinkprogress.org —
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) Senate Republicans have endorsed
Sen. Jim Inhofe’s (R-OK) plan to boycott the legislative...
markup of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733), scheduled to begin tomorrow. Inhofe’s GOP compatriots on ...
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Senate GOP embrace Inhofe’s boycott of Clean Energy Jobs ...
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'Green News Report' - November 5, 2009
The BRAD BLOG —
... days that Copenhagen may agree a "politically binding" deal but that time is too short to agree a "legally binding" text
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A Japanese official said "unless it's agreed within six months after Copenhagen it will perhaps be the following year because of the U.S. mid-term elections." About a third of the U.S. Senate is up for re-election in November 2010.
The Roller Coaster of Drama over Senate Climate Legislation:
Dems End-Run Boycotting GOP, Vote 11-1 for Climate Bill (NY Times) ...
The ‘Party Of No’ Becomes The ‘Party Of Slow’
Wonk Room —
... of legislation. So changes in the legislation at that level of detail will not even show up in the economic computer model. Second, it costs the EPA at least $135,000 and 1600 man-hours of time to run a bill through the agency’s full suite of economic computer models.
Nonetheless, Republican boycotters wanted EPA to spend five weeks and $135,000 of taxpayer money to conduct a redundant analysis before they would agree to a vote.
Today, the committee approved the Clean Energy Jobs Act on an 11-1 vote. Every Republican was absent without leave. ...
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Former HP chief Fiorina running for Senate —
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