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At a morning press conference, the first question to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) was whether he thinks the Democrats, who hope to bring a sweeping climate change bill to a House floor vote tomorrow, have the numbers to pass it. The response:
Boehner: Well, first, let’s not — I don’t know whether it’s going [...]

Yesterday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee got to work on the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill, debating and voting on six amendments to the legislation. That’s modest progress at best — Ranking Member Joe Barton (R-Texas) has promised 450 amendments, and his fellow Republicans could further delay the process by requesting that the 946-page [...]

The markup session for the landmark Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill is underway in the House Energy and Commerce Committee (live webcast from C-SPAN). And it’s sure to be one hell of a show.
Ranking member Joe Barton (R-Texas), who promised to wage “sneaky,” “crafty” “guerrilla warfare” on the legislation, just delivered his opening statement. He [...]

The real winners of the House climate change compromise would be the same industries who are largely the source of the nation’s carbon emissions.

The Democratic leadership of the House Energy and Commerce Committee just released the details of a compromise on the renewable electricity standard in the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill. The original draft bill called for 25 percent of the country’s electricity to come from renewable sources like solar and wind power by 2025. Under the [...]

Former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) is testifying right now before the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee on the Waxman-Markey climate bill. As a respected Republican who has been at the forefront of the global warming debate, he has the ear of everyone in the room.
Everyone, that is, except Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas). Barton, the ranking [...]

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the chairman of the House Republican Conference, just announced that we are at war. In a post at RedState with the headline “A Declaration of War,” he wrote:
There is a war brewing between liberals on Capitol Hill and the hardworking citizens of the Midwest, notably those of my home state of [...]

I was more than a little incredulous when I read that Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) claimed via Twitter to have stumped Energy Secretary Steven Chu with a simple science question. After all, Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, while Barton doesn’t exactly have the firmest grasp of science. And, having witnessed the exchange firsthand at [...]

President Obama has consistently called for all emissions permits to be auctioned off to polluters under a cap-and-trade scheme to produce strong and immediate incentives to reduce carbon emissions. But today White House science adviser John Holdren told The Washington Post that the administration would consider phasing in a full auction by initially giving away [...]

Yesterday, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) admitted that he probably wouldn’t be able to muster 60 votes to pass a climate and energy bill along the lines of the one unveiled by House Democrats earlier in the day. As a result, it appears likely that the various elements of the bill — including cap-and-trade, [...]