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Republicans oppose broad U.S. energy bill: McConnell
A boat passes marsh grass covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill near Cocodrie, Louisiana July 15, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Lee Celano
WASHINGTON |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans "are happy" to consider legislation tied to the BP Plc oil spill but will not support a U.S. energy bill that includes climate regulations, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday.
Congress is considering several dozen bills to prevent another disaster like the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico but broad legislation that would regulate greenhouse gas emissions has stalled in the Senate.
"We are happy to look at oil spill legislation ... There are some things we can do (on an energy bill)," McConnell told CNN's "State of the Union" program when asked if his party could support some of President Barack Obama's agenda.
A climate change and alternative energy bill passed the House of Representatives last year, with minimal Republican support. It mandated a 17 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, from 2005 levels.
But McConnell said Republicans in the Senate would oppose climate regulations in an energy bill, which he described as an energy tax on the nation.
A scaled-back climate change bill that Senate Democrats are considering would achieve far less than Obama promised at a U.N. global warming conference last year -- but even this may be too much for Congress.
The White House has said an energy bill is a top legislative priority this summer.
Without legislation, the Environmental Protection Agency could go ahead early next year with new regulations on carbon pollution that are already facing legal challenges.
(Writing by Paul Simao; Editing by John O'Callaghan)
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I’m neither a Republic nor a Democrat, and I think these Senate Republicans are on the right side of the “cap-and-trade” bill.
Say what you will; even among staunch AGW believers, a cap-and-trade scheme à la Waxman-Markey/Kerry-Boxer is receiving wide recognition as a non-starter. So acknowledged a recent international panel of “AGW [policy] experts.” The thinking has already moved beyond what even a James E. Hansen readily calls “cap-and-tax.” Ready to move forward? Consider this: http://bit.ly/cqdMbc
Such unanimity defies ordinary logic, unless you understand that the sole plank in the Republican platform is “Make Obama fail!”
That shouldn’t be news, since Republicans had already clearly stated that goal even before the legislative session began.
With a record like that, why would anyone still pay attention to their concocted outrage over “big government”?
What a sad joke. Republicans don’t care how big the government is, as long as they are running it. Anyone who doesn’t understand that by now is a fool.
Wow. The dazzling glare of your insight into our two-dimensional, single-party system of big (and bigger still) government very nearly blinded me.
Yet this (non-)climate bill is still a stinking ball of horrid waste best flushed before it makes many the most egregiously corrupt elements among the rich wealthier still–at my expense and yours.
Oh, yes, you would already know that…had you taken time to examine the bill’s content before you went off all partisan to score your silly “point.”
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