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Henry Waxman has had just about enough. The House Energy and Commerce Committee's climate-change bill has been besieged by hundreds of (mostly Republican) amendments all week. Waxman, the committee's chairman, is giving them until the end of Thursday to keep playing around, he told the Huffington Post on Wednesday afternoon.
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Karen Dalton-Beninato: Power of the Post: The Permanent Wave of the GOP
May 13th, 2009 - The Huffington Post
Last spring in New Orleans I met a D.C. lobbyist who had read my piece on John McCain's lack of a visit to New Orleans aside from his private fund-raisers, and we talked about how shortly after that McCain flew down and walked through the 9th Ward...
US House of Representatives Committee Approves Climate Change ...
May 13th, 2009 - VOA News
A key U.S. congressional panel has approved a landmark bill aimed atcombating climate change, days after Democratic lawmakers reached acompromise on the measure. The House Energy and CommerceCommittee approved the bill Thursday by a 33-25 vote...
Congressional panel approves greenhouse-gas limits
May 13th, 2009 - Houston Chronicle
WASHINGTON - Democratic leaders' plan to impose the first national limits on greenhouse gases cleared a major congressional hurdle Thursday when the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed sweeping climate change legislation.
GOP plans climate bill stall in committee
May 13th, 2009 - POLITICO.com
Republicans know they can’t stop Henry Waxman’s ambitious climate change bill from clearing the Energy and Commerce Committee, but they’re promising to make the ride as bumpy as possible.
Congressional Climate Change, Act I
May 13th, 2009 - BusinessWeek
For Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chair of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, the real hurdle in passing landmark climate legislation isn't Republican opposition. It is his fellow Democrats...
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- SC Conservation Community...Various conservation groups encourage GOP candidates to discuss climate change at the debate in Myrtle Beach on 1/10/08.
- Boxer and Whitehouse Answer...At the first day of the Environment and Public Works Committee hearings on the Kerry-Boxer bill, Republican Senators accused their Democratic colleagues of writing a climate change bill that will "mean more economic pain" and kill jobs ...
- Democrats Take On GOP Climate...more at cspan.org April 2, 2009
- Republicans Are "AWOL" For...As was rumored, Senate Republican members of the Environment and Public Works Committee boycotted the markup of the climate change bill this morning. Only Sen. George Voinovich eventually showed up ...
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Senate Democrats ignore GOP and pass climate bill
Senators Boxer and Kerry courtesy of conservative-hideout.com On Thursday Senate Democrats led by Barbara Boxer-CA, and John Kerry-MA passed a bill to promote climate change without any Republican input by a 10-1 vote. (Political News)
jessemathewsonThu, Nov 5th, 20092 Diggs, 0 CommentsClimate Bill Passes Senate Committee Amid GOP Boycott, Baucu
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed landmark climate change legislation today, over the explicit objection of Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), and the implicit objection of the panel's 7 Republicans, who boycotted the proceedings.Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) was not present, and no Republicans showed up to vote.(Political News)
BIGOTHER1Thu, Nov 5th, 20098 Diggs, 0 CommentsIgnoring GOP boycott, Dem panel passes climate change bill
A key Senate panel on Thursday passed a sweeping climate change bill despite a boycott of deliberations by Republicans opposed to the measure.(Environment)MiaCulpaThu, Nov 5th, 200918 Diggs, 0 Comments
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