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As he mentions in his Washington Examiner column this week, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich “appeared in a commercial about the environment with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.” So he has the credibility to compare the push for climate change legislation today to the Soviet oppression of Poland in the 1980s.
This simple arithmetic – 2+2=4 – [...]

The president’s semi-active Twitter account just sent out this message:
The House is voting on a historic clean energy bill today. Have you called your representative about it? http://bit.ly/aWcDK
Twitter has been burning up with conservative and Republican messages telling followers how to call to ask their representatives for “no” votes on the bill. This is notable [...]

Democrats and Republicans are on the House floor debating the Waxman-Markey climate change bill. Kate Sheppard, the great climate reporter for Grist, is live-tweeting the debate, and there are some choice attacks from Republicans.

The Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill has gained momentum since its passage out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on May 21. The bill, which carries tax implications, is expected to pick up its needed stamp of approval from the Ways and Means Committee by June 19, says committee chair Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.). [...]

After threatening 450 amendments and other delays, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee appear to be playing ball, and against all odds, it actually looks like the landmark Waxman-Markey energy and climate will be voted out of committee tonight.
Tuesday’s hearing, the first day at which amendments to the bill were presented, extended late [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Rep. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio) just introduced an amendment to the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill to include a “cash-for-clunkers” program — and after having initially billed the proposal as an environmental measure, it looks like Sutton and her fellow Democrats are finally dropping the green label and calling it what it is: a stimulus for [...]

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 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 [...]