Remember their names.
Their collective eight votes made the difference in passing the Cap and Trade bill in the House last night.
Hot Air reports that Kirk is considering a Senate run. I hope he hasn’t printed up any bumper stickers yet.
It’s time to turn up the heat on members of the Senate. This bill will have devastating consequences on American families and must be stopped.
Somewhere in a land far, far away a tree without a voice is breathing a sigh of relief.
If a tree falls in Brazil, it will, in fact, be heard in the U.S. – at least if a little-noticed provision in the pending climate-change bill in Congress becomes law.
As part of the far-reaching climate bill, the House is set to vote Friday on a plan to pay companies billions of dollars not to chop down trees around the world, as a way to reduce global warming.
The provision, called “offsets,” has been attacked by both environmentalists and business groups as ineffective and poorly designed. Critics contend it would send scarce federal dollars overseas to plant trees when subsidies are needed at home, while the purported ecological benefits would be difficult to quantify.
The offsets “would be a transfer of wealth overseas,” said William Kovacs, vice president for environmental affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
This bill must be stopped.
SPITFIRE MURPHY 