rssReid Indicates Climate Vote Could Wait Until 2010
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 9:29 am
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday signaled that he may be willing to push back a vote on a climate bill until 2010.
“So, you know, we are going to have a busy, busy time the rest of this year,” Reid told reporters. “And, of course, nothing terminates at the end of this year. We still have next year to complete things if we have to.”
Reid noted that the Senate is likely to be occupied with health care reform for much of the fall. He did not rule out moving the energy bill that was passed out of committee back in June separate from a cap-and-trade plan, though he doesn’t seem particularly enthusiastic about the idea.
“That was an initial discussion that we had many, many months ago. … We’ve focused on what the House has done, and that is do it all in one package,” he said. “That’s a bridge that’s still a long ways away.”
Reid’s spokesman Jim Manley told The Wall Street Journal, however, that he is “a long way from making a decision” about voting on climate legislation this year. Reid “still intends to take health care reform, [financial] regulatory reform and cap-and-trade to the Senate floor by the end of the year.”
In any case, Reid’s remarks today are less optimistic than the statement he put out a few weeks ago, when his office maintained that “Senator Reid fully expects the Senate to have ample time to consider this comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation before the end of the year.”
16 Comments
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Comment posted September 16, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
Support for cap-and-trade has evaporated. Daily I read editorials, comments and letters-to-the-editor from all over the nation. Whereas when the House passed the bill it was maybe 2-to-1 against cap-and-trade, opinion now is off the charts against it. The Senate will be wise to bury this unpopular, complex and risky legislation.
– Robert Moen, http://www.energyplanUSA.com
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Comment posted September 17, 2009 @ 12:19 am
I think there's a case to be made that a revenue-neutral carbon tax could be global climate strategy's salvation.
Pingback posted September 18, 2009 @ 6:39 am
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[...] to pass a new law regulating planet-warming emissions this year. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated to reporters this week that a climate bill could wait until 2010. And with the delay, attention is turning once [...]
Comment posted October 15, 2009 @ 6:32 am
How do these guys get into these positions of power anyway?? Surely, they demonstrated one point in their careers. Reid is such a milquetoast, I find it difficult to understand how the likes of my two Senators: Mikulski and Cardin can stomach even looking at the man, nevertheless having to work with him. Baucus is a disgrace. There was no bi-partisan bill out of the Senate Committee on Finance. And as Rep Graydon has said, the 300 billlion dollar price tag on Olympia Snowe's yea vote is way too high for the American people to pay. Get rid of these old men, they are way out of step with the nation and the young people of this nation need real leadership action, not the ole men sitting in the corner, on lobbyists cash, making decisions that is potentially so damaging to their futures.
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