Just in case you missed this from the weekend news, the Sunday Journal reported in its Congress Following the Vote column,
GLOBAL WARMING FILIBUSTER Voting 48-36, the Senate on Friday failed to reach 60 votes needed to end a Republican filibuster against an updated version of global warming bill. Democratic leaders then pulled the bill from the floor, perhaps for the remainder of the year. A yes vote was to advance the bill. McCain and Obama did not vote.
No surprise here, Feingold and Kohl voted YES to advance the bill. (So much for their sentiment that they will keep my thoughts in mind as the global warming debate moves forward.)
We are off the hook for right now. I would bet Senate offices were bombarded with negative calls and emails on cap-and-trade. I would also bet that this bill will return either in its entirety or in bits and pieces like the amnesty bills have returned. They are hoping for a time when we aren't paying attention!
Past Post: Cap-and-Trade? Maybe it should be called Cap-and-RAID!
More reading:
George Will's Cap-And-Trade: A Devious Tax Plan
Good chart of key players and terms explained at end: Senate taking up key climate-change bill
The Heritage Foundation's Morning Bell: Carbon Capping in Bizarro World
Links:
Brookfield7,
Fairly Conservative,
Betterbrookfield,
Mark Levin , Vicki Mckenna
