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  • 50 Things Wrong with the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Bill

    07/05/2009 11:29:09 AM PDT · by beejaa · 17 replies · 1,149+ views
    National Review Online ^ | 7/05/09 | National Review Online
    SPECIAL-INTEREST SOPS 1. Free money for well-connected business interests. 2. A little something for Goldman Sachs. Again. 3. Alcoa and Dupont get their share. The utilities, too. 4. A tree grows in Botswana. 5. Selling indulgences. 6. Protecting refineries. 7. All carrot, no stick for the farm lobby. 8. Replacing the EPA with the USDA. 9. Ignoring ethanol’s impact. 10. Buying off electric cooperatives. 11. Monsanto rounds up favors. 12. Interfering with free trade. 13. Billions for “international clean technology.” 14. Inflating union wages...
  • GOP threatens ethics probe over Markey letter

    06/13/2009 11:41:37 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 27 replies · 1,168+ views
    The Hill ^ | June 13, 2009 | Molly K. Hooper
    GOP lawmakers may charge Democrat Rep. Ed Markey (Mass.) with violating House ethics rules for "intimidating a witness" who testified before his committee, officials tell The Hill. House GOP leaders and members of the Energy and Commerce Committee have not “ruled out the option” of forcing a vote in the lower chamber to investigate the possible ethics violations, accusing the senior Democrat “retaliating and bullying” a witness who appeared last Tuesday before Markey’s subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, where the CEO of a major energy company told members that the White House-backed cap-and-trade bill would do nothing to reduce...