Some Republicans Say Open to US Climate Change Bill (Alexander, Graham, Brown)

CNBC ^ | 4/13/2010 | Reuters

[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.

[dcwusmc]

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

[Tzimisce]

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

[avacado]

These jackass Republicans don't realize that the TEA PARTY is not so much after Democrats as we are after RINOs!!! NOVEMBER 2, 2010!!!

[hattend]

Get rid of them all

[Nextrush]

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.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[lowbridge]

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

[D1X1E]

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.

[mo]

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

[bmwcyle]

RINOs suck.

[SlayerOfBunnies]

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

[SlayerOfBunnies]

> 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.

[genetic homophobe]

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

[Daryl L.Hunter]

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

[Deb]

Soon we’ll be getting matching outfits.

[RJL]

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."

[SunkenCiv]

I guess we know which opening is open.

Guess who the RINOs and other Demwit operatives are trying to push down our throats?

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