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Posted on 03/16/2010 6:26:10 PM PDT by neverdem
Former President Bill Clinton urged Senate Democrats to pass a climate bill this year during their weekly luncheon on Tuesday, arguing that legislation would spur innovation and create new jobs.
Clinton aimed his remarks at moderate Democrats, who fear taking up another controversial bill in the midst of an economic recession and just months before the midterm elections. To reassure them, Clinton distributed polling data showing support for a comprehensive climate bill.
‘We need all the pep talk we can get,” said Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, who has expressed concerns about the impact the bill would have on her coal-dependent state.
Clinton argued that a climate bill could provide a much-needed economic boost to the country, spurring a flood of new, clean energy jobs.
“He thinks, bottom line, that there's no better way to create a surge of new jobs, in this case clean energy jobs, than passing an energy independence bill," said Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.).
And he dismissed the idea of an energy-only bill, a proposal backed by some moderates. A cap on greenhouse gas emissions is necessary to spur new, clean energy investments and jobs, Clinton told the Democratic senators.
“He was very strong about it and that we need to price carbon in the effort to get the money flowing to help to transform the economy,” said Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). “I thought he spoke very strongly.”
Kerry is working Lieberman and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on a revamped version of the climate bill that they hope to release by the end of the month. In hopes of attracting bipartisan support, the three lawmakers plan to include several proposals traditionally backed by Republicans like expanding nuclear power and offshore drilling.
Other members of the Democratic caucus would prefer to use legislation that passed the Energy and Natural Resources committee last June as the basis for a climate bill.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated that he had not yet decided how to move a climate bill forward.
“We have a bill already out of the Energy Committee,” he said. “The question is, do we amend that with the climate change stuff or do we come up with a bill to take care of all that?
Reid noted that climate “kind of got pushed to the side” as Congress took up health care and regulatory reform.
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Global warming is a lie!!
Bill is trying to save Al’s ass.
This dullard should find a new hobby
they keep trying to double down on the control levers...
“...during their weekly luncheon...”
I see the ‘Ex-Grifter in Chief’ still knows how to score a free lunch each week.
If we STILL hear about BJ Clinton each week, and what he’s up to, can you imagine how STUCK we are with 0bama for the rest of our natural lives?
Yep. Elections MATTER, People. Make 2010 and 2012 COUNT!
So they put a moritorium on drilling killing 1.5 million jobs. Those environmental jobs are a fraud just like Warming.
http://www.brayincandy.com/id208.html
Pray for America and Our Troops
And here I thought that, despite his moral and political failures, Bill was fairly intelligent. He can't believe this, and I can't see what's in it for him.
was lindsey graham sitting outside the door panting and wagging his tail ?
“”More Clinton BS, what else is new?””
What office does he hold now? Didn’t anyone tell him he’s no longer president? (All former “dem” presidents rate only a lower case “p”)
Hey Bill: STFU! Then put some ice on it.
Pass a bill after the AGW/CC scam has been exposed for all to see. There’s a winner. Hey, if the Dems don’t think they have the people on their side with the health care takeover, cap and tax, and illegal amnesty, a climate bill to further destroy their way of life will surely work.
Slick Willy “I sold missile-guidance technology to the ChiComs to get elected” Clinton, about as relevant today as the AGW supporters.
Yep. It’s the whack-a-mole strategy. We can only whack so many of them. Eventually, they’ll slip one by.
They will have as much luck with this as they have with the Health Industry piracy. Still, it's pretty obvious where clinton is going with this. He knows it's an economy killer. He knows it will make obama even less popular than he is today. They can put hillary in a position to save the day in 2013.
Free lunch and a day’s total billing for security, travel, etc. These moochers never go away.
yeah..well there’s 300 million of us...535 of them....pretty stupid playing tiddly-winks the way they are.
I think it was Marie Antoinette who said..”let them eat cake..”
Probably also there to rally the Dems on Healthcare...
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