WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats on Thursday abandoned plans to pass an energy bill that caps emissions of carbon dioxide, saying Republicans refuse to support the measure.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said no Republican was willing to back a comprehensive energy bill, a development he called "terribly disappointing."
Democrats have been trying for more than a year to pass a plan that charges utilities and other major polluters for their heat-trapping carbon emissions, which contribute to global warming. They're also abandoning a compromise plan to limit emissions only from utilities that also failed to attract the 60 votes needed to advance it in the 100-member Senate.
Reid and other Democrats said they would focus on a narrower bill that responds to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and improves energy efficiency.
"We've always known from day one that to pass comprehensive energy reform, you've got to have 60 votes," said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the bill's lead sponsor. "As we stand here today we don't have one Republican vote."
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8 comments:
"Hey, everybody, look over here while we shove the same text through attached to another bill that blames BP for the Gulf spill..."
Watch closely, folks...
At last, the 2 RINOs say no..
I get a kick out of the dumbocrats calling it a "comprehensive energy bill"
It should really be called "Slap down and tax"
The dumbocrats need to be voted out, arrested and charged with treason!
I'm not saying I'm for cap and trade. But how many of you sit here and bash these ideas before you even take a look at what they are really talking about? As soon as Rush or Beck tell you it's bad, you guys' minds are made up.
Speaking of Rush, just to show how full of crap he is, the man said today that Obama is trying to dissect us all into tribes based on race. That this country has never been separated on the basis of race and that I guess race has never really been an issue until now. Boy, talk about the bull crap. And this is your source of information?
Does this mean that the Crap and Tax (cap and trade) legislation is dead??
That specific bill is dead, BUT Obama stated today that he wants another bill that regulates SPECIFIC CO2 output.
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Maybe you should be the one that studies what "they are talking about"
Cap and trade is worlk wide wealth redistribution.
Every country in Europe that enacted these wreckless laws is trying to figure out how to repeal them.
Cap and trade is an assault on economic activity!
The whole premess to justify it I.E. "Anthropogenic Global Warming" has been shown to be a hoax!
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