Boxer faces ‘challenge of a lifetime’ on climate change bill
Washington
If the Senate doesn’t pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more.
She says there’s a huge upside, however, if the Senate does act: millions of clean-energy jobs, reduced reliance on foreign oil and less pollution for the nation’s children.
Boxer is engaged in her biggest sales job ever. The stakes couldn’t be higher as she faces one of the toughest high-profile acts of her lengthy career: getting Congress to sign off on historic legislation to lower greenhouse-gas emissions.
“For Barbara Boxer , it’s both the opportunity and a challenge of a lifetime,” said Frank O’Donnell , the president of Clean Air Watch .
As the Senate’s top-ranked environmentalist, Boxer heads the influential committee that began hearings on the issue this week. She’s aiming to get her panel to pass a bill by the end of September. For months now, she’s been meeting with senators one on one and hosting a group of about 30 senators for “Tuesday at 12” meetings to develop a strategy to win 60 votes, enough to overcome a Republican filibuster.
With a House of Representatives bill already approved, all eyes are on Boxer, who must overcome plenty of skepticism on Capitol Hill among her fellow Democrats.
“It’s going to be a tough slog, but I’m excited about it. . . . I know that my Republican colleagues are going to try to do
everything to stop it and distort it,” Boxer said Friday in an interview.
Boxer has been working closely with top White House aides and Reid, a close ally, to figure out a way to pass the bill. To reach out to farm-state and coal-state senators, she’s enlisted a team of lieutenants: Democratic Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts , Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota , Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Thomas Carper of Delaware , among others.
Boxer Delays Senate Climate Bill Until September
This was supposed to be a big week for action on climate change in the Senate — but it’s ending with Republicans rubbing their hands in glee as the Environment and Public Works Committee delays its unveiling of legislation on carbon emissions.
Just two weeks ago, Boxer advised supporters of transportation reform to “work with me on my global warming bill” as she called for a quick rescue of the nation’s highway trust fund.
The highway account is expected to run dry in mid-August, sending Congress and the Obama administration scurrying to find $20 billion to keep state-level road projects funded until the end of 2010.
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If the Senate doesn’t pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more.
…droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more.
We’re all doomed! Doomed! Doomed I tell you!
These things have been occurring on this planet since the beginning of time. Only a ditz like Boxer would think that she could stop it by stealing even more money from the American taxpayers.
“Boxer said the legislation wouldn’t include any new taxes, and she’s portraying Republican opponents as obstructionists.”
I’d be very proud to be called an ‘obstructionists’ over this bill. ….Chant… Obstruct! Obstruct! Obstruct! Obstruct!
Barbara Boxer’s continued advocacy of this crooked, discredited scheme calls her basic mental competency and/or ethics into question.
….Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
This climate change bill is:
1: A government power grab.
2: A masive tax scheme.
3: Another step towards a NWO.
4: A reduction in personal freedom.
5: Will send manufacturing jobs overseas to countries like China and India that have enough sense to not participate.
6: A way to further line the pockets of snake oil salesmen like Al Gore.
7: A gigantic fraud that is full of deceptions.
I have the misfortune of being represented by this “airhead”, and her partner in crime Diane. Don’t forget the sponsor of the bill, who by the way admits he ‘hasn’t read it’, Mr. Waxman is also a Californian.
I am quite sure that somewhere there is a massive payoff, in the cards for “Madame Chairwoman”, ala the amouont of wealth being accumulated by Al Gore as a result of all this.
The Environmentalists have been anti-capitalism and anti-big business, from the get go. Now they have enough allies in the Congress to put some real power behind their ideas and plans to take us back in time.
Algore has already been crowing about ‘Global Governance’, he can’t wait for this POS bill to limit the liberty and freedoms of this bill.
Boxer is a liar Why, Why don’t anyone try to force these idiot people to put up or shut the F up, prove there is even such a thing as Global Warming. What makes this bonehead even think she can do anything about it.
We are to take their word on it. Yet they know not what the hell they are talking about. The more this thing goes on, the more REAL Scientists find this is NOT happening.
Prove it. Why can’t we demand they prove it.
Sean, supposedly she’s my commie senator as is Feinstein both of whom have done nothing for Mexifornia except to live forever on our tax dollars. The gallows are to good for these 2 sluts. They need to be tortured by the same people (us) that they’ve been torturing for years and years.
Hey Sean,
Don’t feel alone. I’m blessed with Schmuck Shumer, Gillibrand and now Scott Murphy who is lock step with the party. When I contact them there is little if no response.
Bob A., your right it is all of those
things.
SEAN,I bet your right about the payfoffs.
Your right too about the power the
enviros have now more then ever before.
Mark, your so right, that is exactly what
they expect from all of us and from
the Rep. politicians too, just to shut
up, don’t ask questions, don’t make
waves and vote yes on the bill.
Grrrrrrr