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Via Climate Progress, E&E News reports that Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, is planning to introduce a climate bill Sept. 8, with a Republican co-sponsor:
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) plans to unveil a major global warming bill immediately after Congress returns from the August [...]

Just as the House Energy and Commerce Committee was passing a not-very-green cash-for-clunkers amendment to the Waxman-Markey bill, three senators introduced a rival proposal with much stronger environmental standards.
Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) co-sponsored a measure today that would modestly increase the “clunker” requirement of the program and significantly [...]

Too big to fail? Maybe. Too big to regulate? Not according to some lawmakers.
Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced legislation today authorizing federal regulators to oversee the credit default swaps market — which has ballooned into a $57 trillion industry.

As we mentioned earlier, the recent swine flu outbreak is causing some liberals to go back to the stimulus debate of earlier this year to point out that the Democrats’ push to include hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic research and mitigation funding was thwarted by Republicans, led by Sen. Susan Collins (Maine). Now [...]

As the swine flu has caused the United States to declare a health emergency and the European Union to warn against travel to the U.S. and Mexico, The Nation’s John Nichols reminds us that there’s a political side to this story. Namely, that efforts from Democrats like Rep. David Obey (Wis.) to stick hundreds of [...]

Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) have found a novel way of punishing the Republican governors who are rejecting stimulus funds for their states: use the money to fund a liberal cause.
According to The New York Times, the two senators are drafting a letter to President Obama suggesting that the $1.7 billion in [...]

So when the Obama administration announced on Friday that it was going to come up with benchmarks to judge the success or failure of its Af-Pak strategy but was still working out what they would be, Denis McDonough, a top White House foreign-policy adviser, said that the forthcoming Kerry-Lugar bill would have some “good metrics [...]

Via The Hill:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Thursday that he has enough votes to pass a more than $900 billion stimulus bill out of the Senate.
Reid said he believes at least two Republicans of “good will” would support the Democratic-crafted package.
“Do we have the votes? We believe we do,” said Reid, who [...]

How’s this for a stimulus plan?
A trio of senators introduced legislation today allowing owners of gas-guzzlers to trade their vehicles in for thousands of dollars in credit on a more fuel-efficient car.

Lilly Ledbetter is coming back.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) announced today that the chamber will vote Friday on legislation making it easier for workers to pursue payment-discrimination claims.