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- News Source: Houston Chronicle | about 1 month agoSenate Republicans on Tuesday vowed to continue boycotting a key committee's work on climate change legislation until a federal agency completes a new study of the proposal's price tag, even as the nation's leading business group softened its...
- News Source: Washington Post | about 1 month agoThe senators' nameplates were lined up neatly on the green felt...The microphones were live and the water iced. But something was missing as the Senate environment committee took up its landmark climate-change bill on Tuesday morning: Republicans.
- News Source: The Hill | about 1 month agoDemocrats said Republicans just wanted to stall the bill. Sen. George Voinovich (Ohio) was the only Republican to appear at the Environmental and Public Works Committee meeting. He appeared only briefly to read an opening statement laying out why...
- News Source: The Orange County Register | about 1 month agoBarbara Boxer and George Voinovich at climate change meeting. The partisan divide between Democrats and Republicans over global warming legislation got even deeper today when lawmakers on both sides couldn’t even agree on whether the Environmental...
- News Source: Politico | about 1 month agoChamber of Commerce has called on the Senate to draft comprehensive climate change legislation, but the powerful business group stopped short of endorsing the cap and trade system at the heart of Democratic climate change bills. "The Chamber stands...
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