Community | November 03, 2009 | 18 comments

Republicans boycott Senate panel debate on climate change bill

source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/03/climate.change/

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Washington (CNN) -- Republicans boycotted a Senate committee hearing Tuesday on a major bill to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

Only one of the seven Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee -- Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio -- showed up for the panel's opening session. He left the meeting after delivering an opening statement.

Committee rules require at least two minority party members to be present to reach a working quorum. However, an exception could allow the committee to proceed without any Republicans, according to committee staff members.

Matt Dempsey, a spokesman for the committee's Republicans, told CNN that applying the exception would be a "nuclear option" by Democrats that would worsen the panel's already strained political climate.

In his remarks, Voinovich asked the committee to hold off its debate until getting a full Environmental Protection Agency analysis of a bill that he said would affect every American.
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18 comments // Republicans boycott Senate panel debate on climate change bill

  • LadybugLady
  • hpseaton
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      hpseaton  

    • Things Republicans just can't get behind.....gay marriage, companies not allowed to rape employees, any chance of salvaging environment, health care for all Americans, Cuba, separation of church and state. Yeah, I'd say they have a proven track record.

    • 2 years ago
  • RFIDemocracy
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      RFIDemocracy  
    • hpseaton:

      Issues Republicans can get behind:

      -state secrets
      -rendition
      -torture
      -tort reform so citizens have no recourse against corps who seek to poison them while they take their money
      -appointing national leaders in court
      -paying no taxes with which to run the country or maintain any semblance of a society
      -marginalizing poor people even more than they already are and preventing them from voting
      -forever enriching the national security state by being in a state of permanent war (GWOT)
      -eviscerating the US Constitution and amending it to reflect their religious suoperstitions
      -killing every Muslim on the planet

      Just a brief list off the top of my head

    • 2 years ago
  • treewolf39
  • ozoneocean
  • RFIDemocracy
  • EdJoyProductions
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      EdJoyProductions  
    • ozoneocean:

      Since they are gullible enough to believe in everything written in a book written by men that thought the world was flat, can't we orchestrate a fake rapture. Go are with gigantic helium balloons and give them to all the good little rapture worthy christians. "God told me to give this to you, take it and go be with him. Bye now. Have a nice trip!"

    • 2 years ago
  • brianwilson
  • treewolf39
  • tommic
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      tommic  

    • Republicans continue to obstruct, offer no co-operation or plans of their own other than the same old cut taxes, take care of the corporate interest that contribute massive sums of money to their campaigns and play on the fears, myths and lies that they depend on to get re-elected. The followers of these jokers are of the same ilk except eighty percent of the people who vote for the GOP vote against their own interest without even knowing it.

      tommic

    • 2 years ago
  • masterzip
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      masterzip  

    • I got an idea for a great energy policy: How about we re-hire Cheney, and have him invite all the energy CEO's to the table,..just to make sure they get a good deal,....and lock away all the meeting minutes and keep it secret from the public forever....while energy corps continue to rape the public.....

    • 2 years ago
  • EdJoyProductions
  • erikjames
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      erikjames  

    • this is just stupid. i don't understand the logic of boycotting this. if they oppose what the dems are going to do VOTE against it! but not participating is so wrong especially to the people that elected them. sad.

    • 2 years ago
  • clownpuncher
  • erikjames
  • RFIDemocracy
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      RFIDemocracy  

    • The Regressives strike again. Demos should just apply the nuclear option right across the board and cut them right out of the process.
      Regressives are unfit to govern.

    • 2 years ago
  • EdJoyProductions
    • 0
      EdJoyProductions  

    • The people that put them there are the ones who financed them. They are slaves to lobbyists and that is why logic and humanity are never an issue in the making of policy.

    • 2 years ago
  • KSirys
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      KSirys  

    • The Republicans, always looking at the dollar first, instead of thinking of the people that put them there in the first place.

    • 2 years ago
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