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• Rahul’s presser gets Mayawati’s green signal (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Lucknow, Dec 7 (IANS) In a sudden change of tack, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Monday gave her nod to a press conference by Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, permission for which was withdrawn earlier in the day.The withdrawal of permission had come to light Monday morning when a team of the Special ...
  3 days ago

• A Carbon Tax Hail Mary?

  
  Mojo Feed | Mother Jones — Authority: 144
  On both the left and the right, there are mutterings that the Senate should ditch cap-and-trade legislation in favor of a carbon tax. But is a carbon tax the silver bullet its supporters claim, or simply a product of wishful thinking?  At an Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on climate policy this week, ...
  5 days ago

• GOP Exploits ClimateGate

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 136
  Republicans in Congress are trying to use the recent release of hacked emails written by UK climate scientists to delay government action on climate change—despite the fact that nothing in the emails challenges the science of global warming. A group of GOPers wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency on ...
  6 days ago

• Obama to Make a Cameo in Copenhagen

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 720
  The United States will take part, after all, in next month’s United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen. President Obama will attend the meeting, if only for a day, to do his part for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the White House also announced its provisional plans to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another indisputable indicator Americans are tiring of the status quo

  
  Seeing Red AZ — Authority: 142
  Republican candidates maintain a steady six-point advantage over Democrats in the most recent edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot. The latest Rasmussen Reports national survey indicates that 44% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 38% would opt for his or her ...
  2 weeks ago

• Democrat Fed-Med: Health care Americans cannot afford

  
  Seeing Red AZ — Authority: 142
  After weeks of secretive drafting, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-UT) unveiled Barack Obowma ’s socialized, government takeover of American health care. The Democrat’s $849 billion measure designed to remake the nation’s health care system, relies on cuts in future Medicare spending  (read: Rationed ...
  2 weeks ago

• It’s not Congress. It’s legalized corruption. Time to end it.

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 614
  Former Rep. William J. Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat, is off to prison . In August, a jury told him that bribery, racketeering and money laundering were not acceptable behaviors for anyone, let alone a member of Congress. As a felon, Jefferson has had equally despicable company : Rep. Andrew J. Hinshaw, R-Calif. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Graham Censured for Sensible Climate Stance

  
  Mojo Feed | Mother Jones — Authority: 144
  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 weeks ago

• Cantwells Alternate Climate Bill

  
  Mojo Feed | Mother Jones — Authority: 144
  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 weeks ago

• Is Bonner Still Lying to Congress?

  
  Mojo Feed | Mother Jones — Authority: 144
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Outrageous criminal penalties for noncompliance with Dem fed med scheme

  
  Seeing Red AZ — Authority: 142
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Climate Bill: Friend or FOE?

  
  Mojo Feed | Mother Jones — Authority: 144
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Anti-Chamber

  
  Mojo Feed | Mother Jones — Authority: 144
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Senate panel passes climate bill as Republicans continue boycott

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• ENVIRONMENT: Boxer Might Move Toward Markup Without GOP Presence

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 534
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

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

  
  Scenarios and Strategy — Authority: 104
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

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

  
  Mojo Feed | Mother Jones — Authority: 144
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

• Its Official: No Climate Bill This Year

  
  Mojo Feed | Mother Jones — Authority: 144
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

• A bit about Barbara Boxer . . .

  
  The Reaction — Authority: 555
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

• Chamber Supports Senate Climate Debate—Sort Of

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 136
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

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