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America's Climate Security Act, a bipartisan bill co-sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman and John Warner, would create a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 65% below 1990 levels by 2050. It has made it out of subcommittee and has a good chance of reaching the Senate floor. Its strength can be measured by what the candidates are saying about it--and by what they're not saying...
...benefits. John Edwards would also increase the taxes but only on income over $200,000. And Clinton--well, she refuses to be pinned down on what, if anything, she would do with Social Security. Instead, she says she would put her emphasis on balancing the budget and appoint a bipartisan commission to figure out what to do with Social Security...
...Some politicians are already talking about extending the 2002 farm bill for another year, but there's going to be heavy bipartisan pressure to pass a new bill with new goodies. Politicians from disaster-prone states like the Dakotas and Montana won't want to give up the $5 billion "permanent disaster fund" they tucked into the Senate bill to protect marginal farms. And the corresponding House bill includes scads of new money for nutrition, conservation, fruit and vegetable farms, organic certification, and other programs desired by various interest groups. That's why even the National Wildlife Federation sent...
...Incidentally, this is the second time in a week that environmentalists are clamoring for a bloated bipartisan bill with terrible ecological consequences because some of the bloat was for them; last week, they cheered when Congress overrode President Bush's veto of a pork-stuffed smorgasbord of Army Corps of Engineers water projects because it included a few projects for the Everglades. Next time you hear a green group complain that America's farm policies and water resources policies are degrading America's natural treasures - the Gulf of Mexico, the Chesapeake Bay, the Colorado River, the Everglades - ask whether that...
...farm bill is on hold, because Senate Republicans are more deeply committed to irresponsible partisan politics than irresponsible bipartisan policies. In Washington, this passes for good government...