Nov 5th, 2009 - AOL Money & Finance
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WASHINGTON -Senate Democrats sidestepped a Republican boycott Thursday, pushing a climate bill out of committee in an early step on a long and contentious road to passage.
Other committees still must weigh-in on the measure, but the partisan antics early on threatened to cast a pall over the bill — one of President Barack Obama's top priorities — as it makes its way to the Senate floor and as nations prepare to meet in Copenhagen, Denmark next month to hammer out a new international treaty to slow climate change.
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Climate bill clears panel without gop's input
Nov 6th, 2009 - Philly
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Democrats advance hotly contested climate bill
Nov 5th, 2009 - MSNBC
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats on a key committee on Thursday ignored a Republican boycott and pushed a climate bill through by a 11 to 1 vote. But the committee chairman...Climate bill passes without GOP
Nov 5th, 2009 - POLITICO
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved climate change legislation Thursday with no Republicans voting for the bill or even participating in the process.
With Republican boycotting the proceedings...Senate panel approves Democratic climate bill
Nov 5th, 2009 - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key U.S. Senate environment committee approved a Democratic climate change bill on Thursday that would require industry to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 20 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels.
Republicans boycott Senate panel debate on climate change bill
Nov 3rd, 2009 - CNN
Washington (CNN) -- Republicans boycotted a Senate committee hearing Tuesday on a major bill to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.
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1:09Republicans Are "AWOL" For Meeting on Climate Change Bill
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, and only to read a statement and lodge a complaint with Chairman Barbara Boxer ...
4:50McConnell: Democrats Are Afraid To Debate Their Climate Tax
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell criticizes Senate Democrats for refusing to allow amendments to their massive climate bill offered in 2008. Democrats clearly don't want to have to debate a bill that is guaranteed to raise the price of energy for average Americans.
1:48:26Senate Republican Climate-Change Debate Hearing: 100 New Nuclear Plants, or New National Energy Tax?
The Senate Republican Conference held a hearing on Monday, June 22, to investigate the effect the Democrats proposed cap-and-trade national energy tax will have on job growth and the ways in which building 100 new nuclear plants over the next 20 years could help our economy ...
1:09Iraq/Afghanistan Veteran Testifies on Climate Change
Retired Army officer Drew Sloan discusses national security issues emerging as part of the debate on climate change. Sloan testified recently before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. He points to future threats that could come from a failure to address climate change.
