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Actually my fiancee’s nephew works as a fairly high level consultant to NASA and he told us about a year ago that the govt’s worst fear is an EMP. They are very worried about it.

In a surprising election-year gambit, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has gutted legislation with strong bipartisan support that would protect the U.S. power grid from solar flares and Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) weapons, to benefit a “clean” energy bill backed by Senate Democrats.

The original bill, known as the GRID Act, authorized the federal government to take emergency measures to protect some 300 giant power transformers around the country. It passed the House of Representatives by a unanimous voice vote in August, an unusual show of bipartisan support in this Congress.

But when it went to the Senate, the bill was gutted of the measures to protect the power grid from EMP attack by Murkowski and committee chairman Jeff Bingamon, D-N.M., while other portions of the bill were added to her own energy bill, S. 1462, the American Clean Energy Act of 2009.

“Sen. Murkowski stripped H.R. 5026 of the main elements designed to protect our infrastructure and did not add them to her bill,” said Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition.

An aide to Murkowski said that Murkowski voted for stripping out the EMP provisions of the bill on practical, not political, grounds.

The "practical" grounds being not enough pork for Alaska...

[WILLIALAL]

I heard that it would cost just a few millions of dollars to protect our electrical grid. A small price to pay for insurance.

[PhilDragoo]

It's spelled Bingaman and he put Charlie Trie on his Commission while his wife made the record lobbyist fee on behalf of Global Crossing which made McCauliffe millions and put our commercial and military communications at the mercy of the PRC. He's a traitor. His buddy Bill Richardson destroyed Notra Trulock to protect Wen Ho Lee. Richardson is another traitor.

[muawiyah]

Murkowski, the acolyte of the antichrist ~ her dead father, burning in hell, must really be proud of his spawn.