Good news! Senate puts off cap and trade!
ByFinally, a little good news, at least for the summer. Via Hot Air, The Washington Post reports that consideration of a cap and trade bill will be put off by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee until at least September. That should give us plenty of time to spread the message that passage of any cap and trade bill will destroy what’s left of the economy.
President Barack Obama’s push for quick action by Congress on climate change legislation suffered a setback on Thursday when the U.S. Senate committee leading the drive delayed work on the bill until September.
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer said her self-imposed deadline of early August for finishing writing a bill to combat global warming has been put off until after Congress returns from a recess that ends in early September.
“We’ll do it as soon as we get back” from that break, Boxer told reporters. Asked if this delay jeopardizes chances the Senate will pass a bill this year, Boxer said, “Not a bit … we’ll be in (session) until Christmas, so I’m not worried about it.”
But Boxer did not guarantee Congress will be able to finish a bill and deliver it to Obama by December, when he plans to attend an international summit on climate change in Copenhagen.
With unemployment nearing ten percent, and more Americans realizing what cap and trade will do the economy, it’s going to be a tough sell. Let’s hope Obama goes to Copenhagen empty handed. Or maybe they could start looking at clean energy we know works….like nuclear! Wouldn’t that be a novel idea.
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They may be corrupt but they are not stupid.
They’ll either figure another way to do this or impliment it incrementally.
Think frog in a pot of hot water
They think once the kids are back in school that people won’t notice what they are doing. Watch for another Friday morning surprise, replete with additional pages added just prior to roll call. Also, it’s worrisome to the DNC that polling is slipping. They didn’t think that could happen to The One and it bodes ill for their hopes to keep the majority into the midterms.