White House to Host Climate, Energy Meeting With Senators
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WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama will try Tuesday to jump start his push to get a climate and energy bill through Congress in the coming weeks, hosting a meeting with cabinet officials and senior Democratic and Republican senators. |
A number of powerful senators are calling for the White House to instead support an energy-only bill such as the bipartisan one passed out committee last year, and leave the question of how to curb greenhouse gas emissions aside. Read more at online.wsj.com |
DEMINT: White House land grab |
| Proposal to seize land would favor animals over Americans |
You’d think the Obama administration is busy enough controlling the banks, insurance companies and automakers, but thanks to whistleblowers at the Department of the Interior, we now learn they’re planning to increase their control over energy-rich land in the West.
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A secret administration memo has surfaced revealing plans for the federal government to seize more than 10 million acres from Montana to New Mexico, halting job- creating activities like ranching, forestry, mining and energy development. Worse, this land grab would dry up tax revenue that’s essential for funding schools, firehouses and community centers.
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At a time when our national unemployment rate is 9.7 percent, it is unbelievable anyone would be looking to stop job-creating energy enterprises, yet that’s exactly what’s happening.
Read more at www.washingtontimes.com |
Climategate Meets the Law: Senator Inhofe To Ask for DOJ Investigation (Pajamas Media/PJTV Exclusive) |
Inhofe intends to ask for a probe of the embattled climate scientists for possible criminal acts. And he thinks Gore should be recalled to explain his prior congressional testimony. |
| Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) today asked the Obama administration to investigate what he called “the greatest scientific scandal of our generation” — the actions of climate scientists revealed by the Climategate Files, and the subsequent admissions by the editors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). |
U.S. Senate not seen passing climate bill in 2010 |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan said on Tuesday he did not think the Senate would pass climate change legislation this year, but instead would focus on a separate energy bill that would have more bipartisan support. |
Dorgan’s comments were at odds with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has said the Senate this spring would take up a climate change bill to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions that are blamed for global warming. |
Dorgan, who is in the Senate Democratic leadership, said it would be difficult for the Senate to turn to controversial climate change legislation after going through the contentious health care debate. |
“It is my assessment that we likely will not do climate change this year, but will do an energy bill instead,” Dorgan told reporters in a telephone conference call. Read more at www.reuters.com |
Saudi Arabia calls for ‘climategate’ investigation |
COPENHAGEN — Saudi Arabia called for an independent investigation into “climategate” Monday, warning that the scandal over stolen e-mails threatened to undermine the global-warming negotiations beginning here. |
“We believe this scandal — or what has been referred to as the ‘climategate’ scandal — we think this is definitely going to affect the nature of what could be trusted in our deliberations,” the Saudi Arabian negotiator said. |
The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has promised to investigate the scandals, although its chairman said Monday that it provided no basis for questioning the science behind global warming. |
Videomakers Document Copenhagen Delegates Arriving in Limousines |
Delegates are expected to utilize more than 1,200 limousines during the UN conference. The Telegraph notes that the number of electric vehicles or hybrids in that number is five. |
Read more at www.breitbart.tv |
Washington and the Jobs Market
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The U.S. needs to stop pouring money into a Keynesian cul-de-sac. |
A familiar definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expecting different results. So in the wake of yesterday’s report that the national jobless rate climbed to 10.2% in October, we suppose we can expect the political class to demand another “stimulus.” Maybe if Congress spends another $787 billion in the name of job creation, it can get the jobless rate up to 12% or 13%. |
Stop trying to raise business costs by making it easier to unionize via “card check.” Stop trying to raise energy costs with a cap-and-tax bill. Stop adding to the deficit and future tax burden with a 12% increase in domestic spending for 2010. |
More taxes, spending increases, more and more regulations….how is anyone supposed to create jobs? Cap & Tax will irreversibly damage our economy! Senate panel approves Democratic climate bill |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A controversial climate change bill cleared its first hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, allowing President Barack Obama to tout progress in the run-up to next month’s global warming talks in Copenhagen. |
Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ignored a Republican boycott and used their majority to approve the legislation that would require U.S. industry to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 20 percent by 2020, from 2005 levels. Read more at www.reuters.com |
My colleagues on the other side of Capitol Hill continue to stand firm against the Cap & Tax bill. This bill will irreversibly harm our economy and permanently send jobs overseas by reducing our global competitiveness. WASHINGTON — Republicans boycotted on Tuesday a scheduled vote on a landmark climate bill in the Senate environment committee, calling for a comprehensive economic analysis before the panel considers legislation that could affect nearly every sector of the economy. |
Delay of the bill’s passage is the latest sign the legislation is unlikely to come to the Senate floor this year. It also threatens to further undermine the U.S.’s negotiating position ahead of a major international climate summit in December. |
Sen. Barbara Boxer, (D., Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and other Democrats on the panel said the Environmental Protection Agency’s existing, 38-page review — though not a comprehensive study of the Senate version — is sufficient to move ahead with a vote. The EPA said because the Senate bill largely mirrors legislation passed earlier this year in the House, it doesn’t estimate there would be large variations in its cost forecasts. Read more at online.wsj.com |
Jobs continue to be scare and manufacturing continues to lag. Yet, the Administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress want to impose even bigger job killing programs like Cap & Tax and government-run health care on Americans. The House Republican Conference has a better plan for renewing America’s economy. Signs of Recovery Don’t Extend to Jobs
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U.S. states and regions continue to see their economies slowly improve, but employers across the country remain skittish about hiring, according to two government reports released Wednesday. |
Yet consumer spending stayed soft, as jobs remained hard to come by for the nation’s 15 million unemployed. The Fed did have some promise of better jobs news to come: Some districts noted improvements in temporary hiring, and in the Atlanta region the pace of layoffs has eased. |
The Labor Department report on unemployment rates showed that states with the highest dependence on manufacturing and construction were hit hardest. Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia saw their unemployment rates increase in September from a month earlier, while 19 had decreases and eight were unchanged. Fourteen states had unemployment rates of greater than 10%. |
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