Senate Delays Work On Climate Change Bill By Months
- added July 09, 2009
- 3 comments
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer said her self-imposed deadline of early August for finishing writing a bill to combat global warming has been put off until after Congress returns from a recess that ends in early September.
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Obama's drive for climate change bill delayed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's push for quick action by Congress on climate change legislation suffered a setback on Thursday when the U.S. Senate committee leading the drive delayed work on the bill until September.http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56857620090709?feedType... -
G-8 emissions agreement fails to include developing nations...
McClatchy Newspapers - L'AQUILA, Italy President Barack Obama and leaders of seven other world economic powers agreed Wednesday to broad goals for reducing global warming, but they stopped well short of measures that environmentalists call critical to stopping the problem and also failed to get developing nations such as China and India to go along.http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/3268176
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Sen. Barbara Boxer today told reporters that she will not draft a climate change bill in her Environment and Public Works Committee until September, throwing the timetable for action in the chamber into doubt on one of President Obama's top legislative goals.
According to published reports, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., agreed to move his deadline for Boxer's and other committees to complete work on a climate change bill to Sept. 28, more than a week later than his original target of Sept. 18. The change came after a meeting Wednesday evening between Reid, Boxer and Carol Browner, Obama's assistant for energy and climate change, Congressional Quarterly reported. .
Boxer had been expected to push her committee to approve the legislation by Aug. 7, when the Senate leaves on its monthlong August recess.
Boxer told reporters today that "we'll do it as soon as we get back," Reuters reported. She attributed the delay to the Democratic push to enact national health care reform. "A lot of our colleagues are on the health committee. It's been difficult," Boxer said.
Just yesterday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., was forced to miss a hearing in his committee on climate change so that he could meet with Reid on the health care bill, leaving Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to oversee the testimony.
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Maybe somebody will READ it this time around.
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- larrysnotes
- 5 months ago
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Yes, and maybe rewrite it too. Unfortunately, it may come true that it won't get passed in time for December if it is even adequate. I really have lost faith in this body to do the right thing by this planet and us. Not that I wouldn't want to be proven wrong, but based on the track record...
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- JanforGore
- 5 months ago
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discussions in green
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