"How can a bill like this pass in a GOP-controlled Congress? </sarcasm>"
Watermelon Thompson knows that this bill will not pass. It is his payment to his Sierra Club and other Watermelon Whore backers/voters.
When the bill is killed, he will say that the evil Bush/Rove/Gop Congress killed it. The is same bs your congress critters have done for 4 years re some off the wall pro enviral bill for payback to their supporters.