[cardinal4]

GOP who? One of the most consequential votes in my lifetime and they let six of their own defect..

[SERKIT]

Three documents came out VERY late in the game on this debate:

1) A 300+ page "manager's amendment" that was added to the bill at 3:09am the day of the House vote. Not only was this a voluminous add-on, it is a scary document. How will local governments be able to afford the extra staff to enforce the new and very confusing building code laws. The bill also radically modifies international trade rules.

2) A suppressed and censored report from our own EPA exposes many problems with the theories and "consensus" of the populist (and now debunked) theory of global warming, and the true (and minimal) affect of human activity on the climate. The suppressed EPA report is linked here:

http://cei.org/news-release/2009/06/25/cei-releases-global-warming-study-censored-epa

3) A report from the Chicago-based Heartland Institute summarized the Non-Governmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) that attempts to use scientific and rational arguments to identify exactly what is going on in the climate and the true impact of human activity. The recently released NIPCC report is found here:

http://www.sepp.org/publications/NIPCC_final.pdf

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

You can tell from reading FR that it is impossible to compel Republicans to do anything. It's like herding cats. I've been there. I've seen it first hand and if you think you have all the answers, we'll be waiting to hear your announcement that you're running for office.

Republicans do not operate like RATS because they can't.

[Nuc1]

I believe that was eight. From a better FReeper than me.

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