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Some Republicans Say Open to US Climate Change Bill (Alexander, Graham, Brown)
CNBC ^ | 4/13/2010 | Reuters

Posted on 04/13/2010 3:23:42 PM PDT by GreaterSwiss

Some prominent Republican senators expressed openness Tuesday to a U.S. climate change bill that might be introduced next week and that would need bipartisan support to have any chance of advancing.

Carbon Emissions Senator Lamar Alexander, a member of the Republican leadership in the Senate, praised the sector-by-sector approach in a compromise bill aimed at reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.

"I think a sector-by-sector approach makes a lot more sense for dealing with carbon," the Tennessee senator told reporters.

Winning Republican support would be big breakthrough for Democrats and the Obama White House, especially as some Republican lawmakers have been sharply critical of climate legislation because of concerns industry would be hurt and also due to skepticism over the science behind global warming.

The sector-by-sector approach contrasts to an economy-wide approach taken by a bill passed last year in the House that was also sharply criticized by Republican lawmakers.

Alexander said he "would consider a cap on utilities only if we could figure out the right way to do it that didn't drive costs up substantially over the short term."

Republican Senator Scott Brown, whose election in January robbed Democrats of their 60-seat supermajority, told Reuters, "I'm open to reading anything that's being proposed" for climate change legislation.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: climatechange; emmissions; globalwarming
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To: Deb

Wow... One more point of agreement. KEWL! Booze and Botox, what the Rat “leadership” runs on!!!


101 posted on 04/13/2010 10:13:13 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub. III OK)
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To: GreaterSwiss

Fantastic, I was just thinking that taxes and prices are WAY TOO LOW. :)


102 posted on 04/13/2010 10:51:32 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: GreaterSwiss
These jackass Republicans don't realize that the TEA PARTY is not so much after Democrats as we are after RINOs!!! NOVEMBER 2, 2010!!!
103 posted on 04/13/2010 11:17:51 PM PDT by avacado
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To: GreaterSwiss

Get rid of them all


104 posted on 04/13/2010 11:42:14 PM PDT by hattend (The era of John McCain is over, the era of Ronald Reagan is back! Go Sarah Go!)
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To: neodad

Lamar Alexander of Tennessee is one of the lesser known RINO’s in the herd, but make no mistake, he is from the Ford-Nixon era of Republicanism.

Alexander even voted to help a left-wing Obama judicial nominee move through the Senate.


105 posted on 04/14/2010 12:56:45 AM PDT by Nextrush (Slocialist Republicans and Socialist Democrats must go)
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To: GreaterSwiss; Nervous Tick; Amagi; Beowulf; Tunehead54; Clive; Fractal Trader; tubebender; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

106 posted on 04/14/2010 2:44:58 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (Warmists as "traffic light" apocalyptics: "Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds."-Monckton)
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To: GreaterSwiss
Alexander said he "would consider a cap on utilities only if we could figure out the right way to do it that didn't drive costs up substantially over the short term."

That way it wont hurt his political career. Over the long term is another story since he'll be out of office by then

107 posted on 04/14/2010 3:07:41 AM PDT by lowbridge (Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
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To: Wisky Business
Anybody who even acknowledges global warmings exists should not be in office. Republican or Democrat

Agreed. Its ignorant and arrogant to think man can control naturally occurring changes to the earth. "Global warming" is just another money and control scam.
108 posted on 04/14/2010 3:36:50 AM PDT by D1X1E (Trust but verify... especially if you got your information from the government.)
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To: GreaterSwiss

So now we know who has some hidden photographs or bank accounts...


109 posted on 04/14/2010 3:41:18 AM PDT by mo
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To: GreaterSwiss

RINOs suck.


110 posted on 04/14/2010 3:42:59 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Free the Navy Seals)
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To: GreaterSwiss

Morons (and only morons) will still vote for these guys.


111 posted on 04/14/2010 5:25:38 AM PDT by SlayerOfBunnies (An Indian friend of mine wishes to remind everyone... Indians <> muslims)
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To: EGPWS

> We the people deserve intelligence in our elected officials!

I wish that were true but face it - we are a bunch of idiots lead by a bunch of idiots (typically) with good hair.


112 posted on 04/14/2010 5:38:00 AM PDT by SlayerOfBunnies (An Indian friend of mine wishes to remind everyone... Indians <> muslims)
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To: GreaterSwiss

Lamar is worse than a RINO. He’s a full blown undercover Democrat.


113 posted on 04/14/2010 7:32:25 AM PDT by genetic homophobe
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To: GreaterSwiss

I am going to ask Senator Brown for my $20.00 back :D


114 posted on 04/14/2010 7:38:27 AM PDT by Daryl L.Hunter (Barack Obama is the Grim Reaper)
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To: dcwusmc

Soon we’ll be getting matching outfits.


115 posted on 04/14/2010 8:55:44 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: GreaterSwiss
Alexander said he "would consider a cap on utilities only if we could figure out the right way to do it that didn't drive costs up substantially over the short term."

So driving costs up substantially over long term is just fine with Rino Lamar Alexander.

It's time for Lamar to be forced into retirement "substantially over the short term."

116 posted on 04/14/2010 9:59:07 AM PDT by RJL
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
I guess we know which opening is open.

Guess who the RINOs and other Demwit operatives are trying to push down our throats?
117 posted on 04/14/2010 6:20:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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