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Dear Member of Congress: Why You Should Vote Against Waxman-Markey
corner.nationalreview.com 6/24/2009 — It appears that years of debate about climate change and energy may now come down to a vote on an actual bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES). As I write this, the vote is scheduled for Friday. If it occurs, you will be ...
Dear Member of Congress: Why You Should Vote Against Waxman-Markey
theamericanscene.com 6/25/2009 — It appears that years of debate about climate change and energy may now come down to a vote on an actual bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 ( ACES ). As I write this, the vote is scheduled for Friday. If it occurs, you will be ...
Boehner Fights Climate Bill With Filibuster, Brightly Colored Poster
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 6/26/2009 — As I reported yesterday , House Minority Leader John Boehner has seemingly traded in his old talking point on cap and trade legislation for a blue chart with brightly colored words on it.
Moments ago, he brought his new weapon to the House floor. ...
ACES Passes
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 6/27/2009 —
To note the obvious catch-up news from last night, the Waxman-Markey American Climate and Energy Security Act passes the House of Representatives late yesterday after a weird John Boehner effort at a quasi-filibuster. The bill has its ...
Backroom Deals, Inexorable Right-wing Slides
openleft.com 6/24/2009 — A deal has been nearly reached on the climate change bill:
House Democratic leaders late last night released a revamped, 1,201-page energy and global warming bill (pdf), clearing the way for floor debate Friday even though it remains uncertain if ...
Where in the World Was Al Gore?
politicsdaily.com 6/26/2009 — Although Al Gore had been scheduled to appear in the Capitol with Nancy Pelosi today to stump for House passage of the climate change bill, Pelosi called Gore last night to cancel. Why? At a press conference today, Pelosi explained, "Well, it's a ...
The Early Word: House Energy Vote
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 6/26/2009 — The climate change bill is up for a vote, with a lot of last-minute lobbying surrounding it.
Climate Change Bill May Hinge On Recalcitrant Progressives
huffingtonpost.com 6/26/2009 — As a vote on a controversial climate change bill approached on Friday afternoon, Democrats on the Hill were turning their attention to progressive Democrats rather than attempting to recruit more Republican support for the measure.
The late-stage ...
How The Climate Bill May Spur Energy Revolution
huffingtonpost.com 6/27/2009 — WASHINGTON — Congress has taken its first step toward an energy revolution, with the prospect of profound change for every household, business, industry and farm in the decades ahead.
It was late Friday when the House passed legislation that would, for the first time, require limits on ...
An important campaign
michaeltotten.com 6/26/2009 — The American Islamic Congress is a serious human rights organization. Headed by Zainab al-Suwaij, they have run a series of important campaigns. Their latest is against "Nokia":http://campaigns.aicongress.org/nokia, which has been assisting Iranian ...
More on Nokia and Siemens
michaeltotten.com 6/26/2009 — Eli Lake had a great "story":http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/13/europe39s-telecoms-aid-with-spy-tech/ in _The Washington Times_ about Nokia and Siemens in Iran. If you have a 401k (or equivalent) or own mutual funds, then you probably own ...
How Can We Combat Climate Change? —
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How Can We Combat Climate Change? ONDEMAND HOME Embed: June 29, 2009 Montel Across America On Friday, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (Waxman-Markey Climate Change bill) passed the U.S. House of Representatives, 219-212. The author of the bill, Representative Henry Waxman ...
Climate bill may come down to DeFazio —
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Will Congressman Peter DeFazio support the climate change bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009?
As Al Gore, President Obama and other environmental leaders work the phones late into the afternoon, the bill's fate in the House appears very much up in the air. It's an ...
Buying Kaptur’s Vote —
Behind Blue Lines
This is how it’s done, folks. And why I couldn’t be a politician. From today’s Washington Times:
When House Democratic leaders were rounding up votes Friday for the massive climate-change bill, they paid special attention to their colleagues from Ohio who remained stubbornly ...
NRCC Ad Attacks Energy Bill -- And Obama —
TPM Election Central
The National Republican Congressional Committee has launched this new TV ad going after freshman Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) for his vote on the climate bill -- and attacking President's Obama's statement during the 2008 campaign that electricity rates would "skyrocket" under a cap-and-trade ...
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Congress makes first big step towards energy independence: —
The Reaction
By Carol Gee Energy bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives -- On June 26 the House of Representatives barely passed an energy-climate change bill (HR 2454), 219-212, with 8 Republicans voting for it and 44 Democrats voting against it. It took everything Speaker Pelosi and Majority ...
Energy Bill is Still Too Weak —
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At Least You’ll Get A Nice Quill Pen and Inkpot —
The Sundries Shack
Is it too much to ask that the President’s Energy Czar, whatever the hell that is, actually read the entire bill she is lobbying so hard to get through Congress?
Well, if you ask her, and Steve Doocy did, it’s horribly unfair to even ask the question.
Doocy asked her five times ...
Money Buys Results In Washington, Example 3,446,089 —
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The Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy bill passed the House of Representatives 219-212 on Friday. OpenSecrets notes that the legislators who voted against the bill received, on average, twice as much money from the energy sector than those who voted for it. Just another day on the Hill.
Boehner Calls Climate Bill a 'Pile of Shit' —
Drudge Retort
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) had a few choice words about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) landmark climate-change bill after its passage Friday. When asked why he read portions of the cap-and-trade bill on the floor Friday night, Boehner told The Hill, "Hey, people deserve to ...
Sunday reading: Old and new wars —
Ben Smith's Blog
Four papers, two very different take-outs, as Obama talks with energy reporters.
WAPO and LAT agree: Obama Calls Climate Bill 'Extraordinary First Step' , and Obama hails climate-change bill , while the NYT and WSJ take a different view: Obama Warns Against Trade Penalties in Energy Bill , ...
Congress: Breaking down the vote —
First Read
The Hill breaks down the key votes on the climate-change bill and how Democrats pulled out all the stops – and votes: “Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) was pulled out of rehab to register his ‘yes’ vote. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), recovering from ...
In a squeaker, House passes energy bill —
First Read
From NBC's Domenico Montanaro and Mark MurrayThe House passed the conentious energy/climate change bill, formally called the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, by a razor-thin 219-212 margin.
The vote came right down to the wire and its ...
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