rssIn Energy Meeting, Dems Are ‘Prepared to Compromise Further,’ While GOP Remains Reluctant
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 2:11 pm
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To no one’s surprise, today’s energy and climate meeting between key senators and President Obama appears to have been inconclusive, with Democrats opening up to further concessions and Republicans remaining reluctant to sign on. Darren Samuelsohn reports:
Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman told reporters after the 90-minute West Wing meeting that Obama held firm in his calls for a price on greenhouse gases. But they said the president acknowledged that he could agree to a more limited climate and energy bill than any the senators had previously drafted.
“We believe we have compromised significantly, and we’re prepared to compromise further,” Kerry said.
“The president was very clear about putting a price on carbon” and curbing greenhouse gases, he added.
Lieberman said a couple of Republicans in the meeting promised to keep talking about the prospect of a less-ambitious climate program that includes a price on carbon, though he wouldn’t name names. [...]
Republican Sens. Lamar Alexander, Susan Collins, Judd Gregg, Richard Lugar, Lisa Murkowski, Olympia Snowe and George Voinovich also attended the White House meeting, but left with a very different message than their Democratic counterparts.
“We’ve got to take a national energy tax off the table in the middle of a recession,” said Alexander, chairman of the Senate GOP Conference.
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Comment posted June 29, 2010 @ 8:41 pm
It's about time the Dems started forcing the hand of the GOP. Republicans are always going to oppose whatever they do, especially since they are the party of coal and oil. It's time the Democrats forced them to defend coal and oil after the Massey mine accident and the BP oil spill, and to keep reminding voters what they stand for up until the November elections.
I just hear that there are now more jobs in the wind power industry than in the coal industry. The coal industry is not creating jobs; in fact, mountain top removal and other techniques are stripping away the jobs that used to be there, along with the mountains. The Democrats need to make light of this and let people know that helping coal does not save jobs, but taxing it to help fund wind and alternative energy research will create jobs that will end this recession.
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