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• Graham Censured for Sensible Climate Stance

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 146
  The Republican Party of Charleston County, S.C. on Monday voted to censure Sen. Lindsey Graham over his support for climate legislation and his willingness to work across party lines on the issue. The Republican has often worked with Democrats in Congress, but Charleston County Chairwoman Lin Bennett says his ...
  4 days ago

• Cantwells Alternate Climate Bill

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 146
  Having cleared the Environment and Public Works committee, the cap-and-trade bill is now being considered by Sen. Max Baucus finance panel, which has jurisdiction over how carbon permits will be allocated. But at a hearing on Thursday, committee member Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) signaled that she thinks cap and ...
  4 days ago

• Is Bonner Still Lying to Congress?

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 146
  In the never-ending ethics scandal that is Bonner and Associates, todays news is that their independent ethics adviser, American University professor James Thurber, is severing his relationship with the group—and may never have been formally retained at all. This comes less than a week after Thurber took out a ...
  6 days ago

• Outrageous criminal penalties for noncompliance with Dem fed med scheme

  
  Seeing Red AZ — Authority: 484
  The non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation  (JCT) confirms that a failure to comply with the Democrats’ nationalized health mandate can lead to 5 years imprisonment and criminal fines of up to a quarter of a million dollars! Here are the stunning facts released by Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means ...
  1 week ago

• Climate Bill: Friend or FOE?

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 146
  Most of the big environmental groups are cheering the advancement of climate legislation out of the Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday, but the farther-left environmental groups are still not happy with the bill. Laudatory responses came almost immediately from Sierra Club , National Wildlife ...
  1 week ago

• The Anti-Chamber

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 146
  The Chamber of Commerce may be taking an ever-so-slightly less obstructionist approach to climate issues lately. But now it has some new competition in the lobbying realm: American Businesses for Clean Energy , a coalition that has formed to push for climate legislation. The group, which debuted on Wednesday, has ...
  1 week ago

• Senate panel passes climate bill as Republicans continue boycott

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 159
  By Jim Snyder The Hill.com The Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee passed a climate bill Thursday despite a GOP boycott. Democrats voted 11-1 to approve the bill, with Sen. Max Baucus of Montana the only “no” vote. Republicans protested the markup, which delayed a vote for two days. They ...
  1 week ago

• ENVIRONMENT: Boxer Might Move Toward Markup Without GOP Presence

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 550
  by Darren Goode A partisan standoff on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee might escalate today when the panel continues debate on a climate bill. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Looking for more? For CongressDaily articles and markup reports, see our Energy and Environment page . For ...
  1 week ago

• The only winning strategy is not to play the game…

  
  Scenarios and Strategy — Authority: 109
  How is it that America legislative politics have gotten so out of touch, so out of hand– so out of whack?  It’s no secret that lobbying has contorted the system.  Here, from UC Berkeley Post-Doc Fellow David Zetland, a wonderfully elegant explanation of how… He demonstrates the “all-pay auction,” in which ...
  1 week ago

• Is There a Tri-Partisan Path Forward for a Climate Bill?

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 146
  With debate of a climate bill at a stand-still in the Environment and Public Works Committee, a bipartisan group of Senators on Wednesday announced that theyre working on an alternative path to passing a bill. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said they are meeting with ...
  1 week ago

• Its Official: No Climate Bill This Year

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 146
  Its official: climate legislation has zero chance of passing before the big summit in Copenhagen this December. Many observers have assumed this for a while, though some (myself included) were hanging on to a shred of hope that senators could produce something in time for the meeting. But on Tuesday Senate Majority ...
  1 week ago

• A bit about Barbara Boxer . . .

  
  The Reaction — Authority: 577
  By Carol Gee Californias Senator Barbara Boxer must have had a high level to patience to have gotten along for the past three years with her Ranking Member, Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, on the Environment and Public Works Committee. She is tough but fair, warm and inclusive and scary smart. Californias ...
  1 week ago

• Chamber Supports Senate Climate Debate—Sort Of

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 133
  The Chamber of Commerce expressed support for a "bipartisan" solution to the problem of climate change in a letter received today by the Senate panel charged with advancing a climate bill. (And yes, the letter is real and not a prank .) Has the beleagured group finally done a 180 degree turn on its climate ...
  1 week ago

• The crown jewel of the Socialist takeover: Massive bureaucratic expansion

  
  Seeing Red AZ — Authority: 484
  The House Republican Conference has compiled a list of all the new boards, bureaucracies, commissions and programs created in H.R. 3962 , the 1990 page document that is Speaker Pelosi’s massive government takeover of health care — an unbelievable 111 in all . Our voices raised in opposition to this ...
  1 week ago

• GOP Still Blocking Climate Bill

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 146
  Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) says she will move forward on climate legislation tomorrow, with or without Republicans, who have pledged to boycott the markup . Republican leaders sent a letter to Boxer on Monday afternoon saying they want more  analysis before participating in a markup. George Voinovich (R-Ohio), a ...
  1 week ago

• Bonners Five Point Plan for Quality Control

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 146
  Jack Bonner, head of Bonner and Associates, insisted in congressional testimony on Thursday that the forged letters his company sent to lawmakers were the work of a single "rogue" employee, not the result of any deeper problems at his firm. The incident, Bonners lawyer wrote in a letter to the committee, "was an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Should the DOJ Take Up the Letter Fraud Case?

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 146
  Will the coal industry representative who may have lied under oath to Congress on Thursday face legal repercussions? Steve Miller, CEO for American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a major coal industry lobby group, said under oath that his organization "has never opposed the Waxman-Markey bill," when in fact ...
  2 weeks ago

• Did Coal Lobby CEO Lie Under Oath?

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 133
  In testimony before Congress on Thursday, Steve Miller, CEO for American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a major coal industry lobby group, stated under oath that his organization "has never opposed the Waxman-Markey bill." But ACCCEs previous statements indicate otherwise. On the day that the House passed the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Inside Bonners Climate Letter Forgeries

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 146
  Two weeks before the House voted on the historic Waxman-Markey climate bill, a number of key Democrats received letters purportedly from minority groups, urging them to oppose the legislation. The now-infamous letters turned out to be forgeries generated by Bonner and Associates, a political consulting firm working on ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Latest in the Bonner Forged Letters Controversy

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 146
  Jack Bonner—head of controversial political consulting firm Bonner and Associates—and Steven Miller—the CEO of American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity—have a lot of explaining to do on Thursday morning. Thats when theyre due to be grilled by the House Select Committee on Energy and Global Warming about ...
  2 weeks ago

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