H R 2454 RECORDED VOTE 26-Jun-2009
BILL TITLE: American Clean Energy and Security Act
yes ---- AYES 219 ---
Carson (IN)
No ---- NOES 212 ---
Burton (IN) Republican voted No
Ellsworth (IN) Democrat voted No
8 Republicans voted yes and need to be replaced at the next election.
44 Democrats voted No
Because of the close vote in the House, Senators are already nervous about supporting the National Energy Tax. In fact, over the weekend Senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat from Missouri said: "I hope we fix cap and trade so it doesn't unfairly punish businesses and families in coal dependent states like Missouri."
So far I have not heard of anybody in congress that actually read this bill including the White House representatives.
Here’s the list of congressional Republican traitors who bailed out and crossed the aisle to bury your children and grandchildren in unnecessary cost via the so called cap and trade bill passed by the house. Had four of these pseudo Republicans held firm the bill would have lost.
The eight GOP members: Reps. Mary Bono (Calif.), Michael Castle (Del.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), Leonard Lance (N.J.), Frank LoBiondo (N.J.), John McHugh (N.Y.), David Reichert (Wash.) and Christopher Smith (N.J.). Forty-four Democrats voted against the bill, making the eight GOP votes all the more crucial. (moeissuesoftheday.blogspot.com)
Mr. Carlin and Mr. Davidson of the EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency may have suppressed an internal report that was skeptical of claims about global warming, including whether carbon dioxide must be strictly regulated by the federal government, according to a series of newly disclosed e-mail messages.
Less than two weeks before the agency formally submitted its pro-regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty "decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data."
The EPA official, Al McGartland, said in an e-mail message to a staff researcher on March 17: "The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward... and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision."
The e-mail correspondence raises questions about political interference in what was supposed to be a independent review process inside a federal agency -- and echoes criticisms of the EPA under the Bush administration, which was accused of suppressing a pro-climate change document.
Alan Carlin, the primary author of the 98-page EPA report, told CBSNews.com in a telephone interview on Friday that his boss, McGartland, was being pressured himself. "It was his view that he either lost his job or he got me working on
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