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That the bill - also known as Waxman-Markey after its co-sponsors, the Democratic Congressmen Henry Waxman and Edward Markey - is historic is obvious, as it marks the first successful attempt by Congress to address climate change at a national level. But as the bill moves to the Senate, where the virtual requirement for 60 votes means that passage will be even more difficult, it's far less clear that Waxman-Markey is strong enough to meet the long-term threat of global warming. The sheer difficulty of the negotiations that produced this 1,300-page bill - and the fact...
...sense that once you put it on the floor the votes will be there," said Representative Mike Doyle, a Democrat who represents a steel-manufacturing district in western Pennsylvania. Doyle was initially leery of the bill, but was brought around by concessions from Energy & Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman. Those changes and other last-minute compromises made to appease Agriculture Committee chairman Collin Peterson are "going to go a long way toward getting a lot of those fence-sitters on the Ag committee to become yes votes," Doyle said. Many manufacturers and small businesses are afraid that increased energy prices...
Peterson led a six-week campaign on behalf of Agriculture Committee Democrats and some fiscally conservative, so-called Blue Dog Democrats - a bloc of 45 votes - against two provisions in the bill. Ending a turf war, Waxman - whose committee has jurisdiction over the Environmental Protection Agency - allowed the Agriculture Department, not the EPA, to oversee a potentially lucrative program to create technology to save energy for farmers (Peterson allowed that the Obama Administration could weigh in on the EPA's role in the issue, if any). And Waxman agreed to bar the EPA for five years from calculating how much...
...tacitly, Wall Street, which will benefit from the creation of a massive new energy-trading market. The majority of environmental groups support the bill, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the League of Conservation Voters, even if some groups feel that the measure is too weak. When Waxman announced the agreement in a press conference Wednesday, about 30 supporters wearing T shirts and carrying placards that read MAKE OUR ENERGY CLEAN, MAKE IT AMERICAN stood behind him. Still, the support of their groups remains tenuous. "It's not a perfect bill and we're concerned that the Senate might...
...timing of the new report is perfect. A bill to cap U.S. carbon emissions, sponsored by Democratic Representatives Henry Waxman and Edward Markey, is making its way through Congress and could be up for a vote in the House of Representatives as soon as next week. Although the bill has the support of the White House and has been watered down considerably to earn centrist and conservative votes, it will still struggle to become law. Opponents argue that cap and trade will ruin the U.S. economy by raising energy prices. But while there are arguments to be made against...