June 26, 2009 5:01 PM
Global warming bill - keep calling your legislators!!!!!
The House neared a decisive vote on sweeping climate-change legislation Friday afternoon -- with Democratic leaders racing to corral votes on a bill that Republicans said they hadn't even seen yet.
Rep. Geoff Davis, a Republican from Kentucky, said the cap-and-trade bill represented the "economic colonization of the heartland" by New York and California. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) called the bill a "scam" that would do nothing but satisfy "the twisted desires of radical environmentalists." Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Mich.) called it a "massive transfer of wealth" from the United States to foreign countries.
Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio countered that, without the bill, the United States would remain energy-dependent on people who want to "fly planes into our buildings."
Republican accused the Democrats of ramming the bill through the House. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.) asked repeatedly if there was even a copy of the current version of the bill anywhere in the House chamber. Democratic Rep. Ellen Tauscher - sitting in the speaker's chair although she's already been confirmed as Obama's undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security -- repeatedly dodged the question.
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), one of the bill's sponsors, finally rose to say that a single copy of the current version of the bill was available at the speaker's desk - and on the Internet, which members would have to leave the floor to access.
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