I guess Lobbyists are better armed with money and resources than activists. With the state of economy and other data it is evident what stupid politicians could do to a country and the world! With all the evidence and data and activities, lobbying and big monies with the selp of Senate Republicans, have defectively killed the Climate Security Act of 2008!.
Senate Republicans today effectively killed a global warming bill that would have required the United States to make major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades.
The bill, which had bipartisan support, fell a dozen votes short of the 60-vote threshold it needed to overcome a GOP filibuster and move to final consideration. The 48-36 vote for the climate bill came after bitter debate in which opponents charged that it would damage the U.S. economy and drive up gasoline and other energy prices. Democratic supporters of the measure accused Republicans of spreading misinformation about it.
President Bush had vowed to veto the bill, known as the Climate Security Act of 2008, even if Congress had approved it.
Today's vote left Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) with no choice but to withdraw the bill, a spokesman said. Reconsideration of the proposed legislation thus appeared likely to be postponed until next year after a new Congress and president take office.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.), would have introduced a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases as part of provisions to cut emissions linked to global warming nearly 70 percent by 2050.
Read the two page report at Washington Post.
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