WASHINGTON – By now we’ve all read the news. The United States House of Representatives has passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, by a razor-thin...
News Source: Magic City Morning Star
| 5 months ago
The centerpiece is a system to force energy utilities to purchase government credits to offset their greenhouse gas emissions. This would in effect be an energy tax on the American people as the utilities pass the increased costs along to consumers...
House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is aiming to draft and pass legislation through his committee by the August recess. The legislation would set up a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, as the Obama administration...
The debate over whether the 5-month-old plan is working is still a little premature, but that hasn't stopped economists and politicians from jumping into the fray...Doyle McManus July 5, 2009 Should President Obama seek a "second stimulus"?
The proposed climate change legislation, intended to reduce carbon dioxide emissions over the next 40 years, will substantially raise electricity bills. Texas, joins other reports from around the country that project significant job losses and...
In what Democrats are readily admitting was their toughest vote since they took back power in 2007, the eight Republican votes proved critical to letting Pelosi hand out as many free passes as she could to members who thought that it would be too...
The bill being considered needs a close look by all Americans. I quote from well-known sources: Wall Street Journal online, June 26: “When the Heritage Foundation did its analysis of Waxman-Markey, it broadly compared the economy with and without...
Despite its title as the "American Clean Energy and Security Act," the energy and climate bill that the House of Representatives passed recently takes only a modest step toward reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Two studies project that...
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