Topic: U.S. Republican Party
Senate Republicans have long opposed cap-and-trade legislation to grow clean non-polluting energy (along with all the other legislation they opposed that would do it too). Yet, ironically, the Senate GOP is now rejecting the free market option in favor of the very ...
Now that every scientist who isn't part of the lunatic fringe agrees that human greenhouse gas emissions significantly alter the world's climate, the debate on Capitol Hill has shifted from science to policy. On Friday, the House of Representatives passed HR 2454, ...
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed by a vote of 219-212, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454), intended to drastically reduce U.S. levels of greenhouse gas emissions and increase the nation's use of renewable fuels. Eight ...
Republicans have found a familiar way to oppose the cap-and-trade emissions bill being pushed through Congress: Other Democrats like Michigan Rep. John Dingell have flat-out called it a tax. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has hinted that it would take the same ...
8 Senate Democrats oppose speedy action on Obama's bill to combat global warmingEight Senate Democrats are opposing speedy action on President Barack Obama's bill to combat global warming, complicating prospects for the legislation and creating problems for their party's leaders.The eight Democrats ...