Posted on 08/31/2009 8:27:36 PM PDT by kingattax
Sens. Barbara Boxer and John Kerry said Monday the climate bill they are writing would not be finished until later in September.
The bill was expected to be ready when lawmakers returned next week.
“Because of Senator Kennedy’s recent passing, Senator Kerry’s August hip surgery, and the intensive work on healthcare legislation particularly on the Finance Committee where Sen. Kerry serves, Majority Leader Reid has agreed to provide some additional time to work on the final details of our bill, and to reach out to colleagues and important stakeholders,” Sens. Boxer (D-Calif.) and Kerry (D-Mass.) said in a joint statement.
Boxer is the chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the panel that has primary jurisdiction over the bill.
Kerry has been a longtime proponent of capping carbon dioxide. He has used his gavel as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to examine how rising global temperatures could destabilize certain regions.
Sen. Reid (D-Nev.) had asked the committees with oversight on climate-related issues to have bills ready by the end of September. The delay announced by Boxer and Kerry could make it more difficult for Reid and other Democratic leaders to work out a compromise bill that can muster the 60 votes needed to proceed in the Senate by the end of the year.
“They are working diligently to craft a well-balanced bill and Senator Reid fully expects the Senate to have ample time to consider this comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation before the end of the year,” Reid spokesman Jim Manley said in a statement Monday
Boxer and Kerry/SERIOUSLY???
Loons...like McKook?
Agreed!!! Amen!!!
It is a positive that these far left loons are drafting this. More likely it is junked.
Falling poll numbers and Tea Part events must make a difference, eh?
The bill’s probably only 800 pages long now and needs to put on another 300 pages of gobbledygook to get it into the heavyweight Communist class.
Yeah, that hip replacement was due to one of his serious war injuries, wasn’t it? Yeah, I remember now! He took a serious fall while in Paris meeting with the enemy.
CRUNCH
ZZZAP!
No, it was to repair a chronic stress fracture -- caused by Kerry repeatedly jumping to premature conclusions.
Guess the climate was too nice for them to write the bill.
Or Teresa whacking him in the hip for all the premature....ah, never mind.
Yes! And God is good!! He works in mysterious ways!!!
That piece of rice he's been carrying around in his Arse from the war was aggravated when the Secret Service knocked him down when he was snowboarding.
things like this are what you get when you
throw your congressional majority away.
thanks a lot, Mr. Bush
Didn’t Kerry serve in Vietnam?
These are arguably two of the dumbest people in congress. These two make dog’s breakfast out of walking and talking at the same time...
stakeholders
Buzz word of the week.
Does not include me.
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