Waxbag~Malarkey Carbon Cap Tax & Scam Ping ~ (POGW)
Posted on 07/03/2009 3:26:08 AM PDT by Man50D
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) inserted a last-minute 310-page amendment into the cap-and-trade climate change bill just hours before the bill reached a House vote last Friday evening, and the amendments included indecipherable provisions for something called a “central procurement state.”
Lawmakers, who eventually passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 on a 219-212 vote, had little time to review the lengthy amendment, which was posted at 3:09 a.m. Friday, less than 15 hours before the 5:30 p.m. vote.
The amendment referred to a “central procurement State” 11 times, but no provisions for a "central procurement state" had been included in the original 1,201-page version of the bill before Waxman added his amendment Friday morning. Lawmakers who never got a chance to study the amended version before the bill was passed would have had a difficult time knowing exactly what it was for which they voted.
Despite the multiple references to a “central procurement State,” precisely what that means remains unclear because the long-winded definition in the amendment itself is nearly impossible for a lay reader to decipher.
The definition of a “central procurement State,” as stated in the first of Waxman’s amendments, is: “a State that, as of Jan. 1, 2009, had adopted and implemented a legally enforceable mandate that, in lieu of requiring utilities to submit credits or certificates issued based on generation of electricity from (or to purchase or generate electricity from) resources defined by the State as renewable, requires retail electric suppliers to collect payments from electricity ratepayers within the State that are used for central procurement, by a State agency or a public benefit corporation established pursuant to State law, of credits or certificates issued based on generation of electricity from resources defined by the State as renewable.”
CNSNews.com called the House Energy and Commerce Committee twice on Monday to seek clarification about what a “central procurement State” is but never received a response. Congress is now in a weeklong recess in anticipation of the Independence Day holiday.
Other amendments expanded the definition of biomass to include woody biomass and agriculture waste that is commonly used on private farmlands, and gave the federal government new authority to build interstate power lines in the West. Waxman’s 310 pages of amendments also included many technical amendments that replaced single words and corrected minor errors.
As House members prepared to vote on the bill on Friday, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) claimed the floor for longer than one hour to read major portions of Waxman’s amendments.
Although some of his colleagues were eager to vote quickly, Boehner said it was important to take the time so that members and citizens could be informed about the eleventh-hour amendments and how they would affect the American people.
“Today, in what will be remembered as the defining vote of the 111th Congress, House Democrats passed a 1,500-page national energy tax bill that no one even had the chance to read,” Boehner said.
“The American people have the right to know what is in this legislation and, more importantly, what impact it will have on middle-class families and small businesses,” Boehner added.
When Waxman protested Boehner’s right to unrestricted time at the podium, the House Speaker Pro Tempore who was filling in for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) explained: “The custom of the House is to listen to the leaders’ comments.”
Boehner continued: “The gentleman (Waxman) has had his 30 years to put this bill together, and the House is going to spend a whopping five hours debating the most profound piece of legislation to come to this floor in a hundred years.
“And the chairman has the audacity to drop a 300 plus-page amendment in the hopper at 3:09 AM this morning. So I would ask my colleagues - don’t you think the American people expect us to understand what’s in this bill before we vote on it?”
Many members of the House voted on the bill without having read it in its entirety, including Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) who told CNSNews.com on Friday: “You’d have to have hours and hours and hours to be able to do all that, but we’re well aware of the main items.”
Waxbag~Malarkey Carbon Cap Tax & Scam Ping ~ (POGW)
“central procurement state.”? Like der Kremlin?
Man! 3 card Monte is exactly what I feel like is happening.
“Many members of the House voted on the bill without having read it in its entirety, including Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) who told CNSNews.com on Friday: “You’d have to have hours and hours and hours to be able to do all that, but we’re well aware of the main items.”
Yeah, right. Read the damn thing and you might be surprised, even appalled if that’s possible, you putz.
That is my new LLC, “Central Procurement States.com, LLC”.
I am waiting for the check to arrive.
That’s not so hard to decode:
A “central procurement state” .... “requires retail electric suppliers to collect payments from electricity ratepayers within the State” to buy “credits or certificates issued based on generation of electricity from resources defined by the State as renewable.”
In other words we “ratepayers” will be taxed so that some “State agency or a public benefit corporation” can buy fiat money Globull Warming certificates from Al Gore’s sham offshore “green investment” companies and Goldman Sachs will “broker” such purchases.
Sweet.
This is the exclusive and entire objective of Cap And Trade.
Absolutely shameless robbery of the taxpayer under the aegis of the fictional global warming scam.
Al Gore has beat you to that particular cash cow:
http://www.generationim.com/
We focus on key drivers of global change, including climate change and environmental degradation; macroeconomics, poverty and development; water and natural resource scarcity; pandemics and healthcare; and demographics, migration and urbanization.
* The Honorable Al Gore, Chairman
Marxism, pure and simple.
The dhimmirats have absolutely lost their collective minds. This legislation would be insane in a decent economy. In the current economic climate this is positively unconscionable.
The whole freakin’ mess is anti-Constitutional, illegal, and has no place in the US economic or political arenas. There is NO consensus on the underlying need. China and India have already said they aren’t going to participate, and they are the two largest contributors to the (supposed) problem.
This is nothing more than another power grab by the LibTards; another step on the march to marxism by the 0bamunists and the pretender-in-chief.
It’s time to stop this madness. We must take back the country.
I can understand Obama being for this bill. He isnt an American anyway, but some of these Democrats and the 8 Republicans, what is their excuse?
“It’s time to stop this madness. We must take back the country.”
I’m game.
Yeah, my serf to Obama (Congressman) told me in a letter “Let me make on thing clear: this legislation will not raise taxes on consumers, not by one dollar.”
I am in the midst of writing a response that "Maybe, but corporations don't pay taxes - their customers do."
I can't wait to see how he wriggles out of that one.
>>“Let me make on thing clear: this legislation will not raise taxes on consumers, not by one dollar.”
Wow. He’s right! And Obamacare won’t raise electric rates for consumers, not by one dollar! You should call that lying jackass and ask for a meeting to explain household economics to him. It doesn’t matter to the unwashed masses if its a tax increase or a rate increase, its still more money flowing out of a very finite household budget.
Waxman added that 310 page amendment to this crap and trade bill in order to handle the global warming problem coming out of his nose.
Amen, Amen, Amen.
Definitely a Marxist term.....
.....We are so screwed.
These people who voted for this are so irresponsible that they would be held criminally liable in the private sector. Yet they will skate free and go on to do more irresponsible damage.
It's all coming apart at the seams, the trainwreck will happen soon, within our lifetimes. Who would have guessed this when they were growing up? That we would witness the Marxist takeover and destruction of our Capitalist and successful society.
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