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Boxer Forces Cap and Trade Bill Vote With No Republicans Present
November 5th, 2009
Sen. Barbara Boxer, chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has done something not very often done in the Senate. She has called for a vote and passed a bill through her committee without any members of the minority party present.
Conservatives have been calling this a Cap and Tax bill or Cap and Spend bill. Republicans on the committee boycotted the hearings until they could get an analysis of the bill from the EPA, thinking by not having at least two members of the minority party present the vote could not take place.
Not in this Congress. No rules are the rule.
The bill would require cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent over the next decade from 2005 levels. But Republicans warned the bill would leave consumers with higher energy bills.
“This would be the largest tax increase in the history of America,” Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., one of the seven committee Republicans, told Fox News. “I can only conclude that they don’t want the public to know how much money this thing is going to cost.”
Inhofe, who said the committee typically needs two minority members present to advance a bill to the floor, called the vote Thursday “unprecedented.”
One Democrat, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., voted against the bill. Ten Democrats voted for it.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., chairwoman of the committee, applauded the vote in a written statement Thursday.
“We are pleased that despite the Republican boycott, we have been able to move the bill,” she said.
She defended the decision not to seek an EPA analysis, calling such a study “duplicative and a waste of taxpayer dollars.”
I don’t know about you, but I’ve gone from amusement to anger to apathy and back to furious anger with the way the Democrats are running this government of ours and the way they are destroying our country and the people who live here.
How much more can they squeeze from the taxpayers? China already owns this country and they certainly won’t contain their greenhouse emissions.
If it were within my power, I’d call for special elections of the entire Congress tomorrow. Make it Saturday so everyone can have an opportunity to vote. We do still have some people working, don’t we?
Some In The Senate Must Have Missed The Message. Obama Won!
July 9th, 2009
All together now….awwwwww. Not!
U.S. President Barack Obama suffered a double-barreled setback in Congress on Thursday when members of his own party moved to apply the brakes on his top legislative priorities, healthcare and climate change.
Obama has demanded urgent and simultaneous attention to overhauling healthcare and addressing climate change, saying both were necessary to boost the U.S. economy, which is in a deep recession.
He has demanded that Congress send him a bill by October to cut healthcare costs and provide medical coverage to most of the 46 million uninsured Americans. The president wants climate change legislation before year’s end.
While Obama was in Italy on Thursday encouraging world leaders to intensify the fight against global warming, legislation to cut U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases suffered a delay in the Senate.
The leading Senate committee responsible for developing the climate change legislation put off for at least a month work on a bill, leaving less time for Congress to fulfill Obama’s desire to enact a law this year.
We need no implementation of programs which will cost the taxpayer (of any income level) any more money.
Many citizens are stretched to their limit now and these big ideas Obama and the Democrats have to improve America are best left undone.
(Speaking of the stimulus program, don’t miss this post..it is very enlightening).
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We Had Better All Find That Money Tree
May 22nd, 2009
If this bill passes it remains to be seen how quickly Obama blames Bush for the strain its repercussions will put on American families:
Legislation imposing the first nationwide limits on the pollution blamed for global warming advanced in the House late Thursday, clearing a key committee despite strong Republican opposition.
The Energy and Commerce Committee approved the sweeping climate bill 33-25 after repeatedly turning back GOP attempts to kill or weaken the measure during four days of debate.
Have you ever seen an administration or a Congress which puts forth such effort to destroy the budget of both working and retired folks?
Let me put that another way. We will continue pay for elected officials to live the high life while the rest of us live in the poor house.
*What a disgrace. Congressman Waxman admits he does not know the full details of the Cap and Trade bill he co-authored.
Elections really do have consequences.
