Tip of the iceberg.
Posted on 02/12/2011 12:22:23 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Hill E2 wire reports:
House GOP spending bill prohibits funding for EPA climate regs
A government spending bill unveiled Friday night by House Republicans would prohibit funding for Environmental Protection Agency climate regulations through September of this year.
The continuing resolution, which would fund the government through the end of the fiscal year, is the latest attempt by Republicans to stop EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Republicans argue that pending EPA climate rules will destroy the economy and result in significant job losses. GOP lawmakers, including House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), have introduced legislation to permanently block the agency’s climate authority.
The bill would block funding for all current and pending EPA climate regulations for stationary sources.
Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), the chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee on interior and the environment, said he worked closely on the language with Upton. He said the language would give Upton time to move forward with his legislation.
“It has become clear to me in talking to the job creators in this country that allowing these regulations to go into effect would prevent job creation and inhibit economic growth at a time when our economy is still struggling,” Simpson said in a statement. “It should be up to Congress, not the Administration, to determine whether and how to regulate greenhouse gases, and in attempting to do so without congressional authority, I’m concerned that EPA has overreached.”
The continuing resolution makes massive cuts to the EPA’s budget. The legislation cuts EPA funding by $3 billion, 29 percent below fiscal year 2010. Overall, Simpson cut $4.5 billion from his subcommittee’s budget.
Full report here: House GOP spending bill prohibits funding for EPA climate regs
Whoo Hoo! It had better happen! And it had better be only the beginning. bttt
Yippee-Kai-Yea!!!!
One of the worst presidents in our history.
Battle Over Budget Cuts Raises Specter of Federal Government Shutdown ( EPA targeted)
Yeah! I’m sick of the dog and pony shows! We must stop their phony BS in its tracks and make them go after the back door stuff the EPA is doing.
The EPA needs to have it’s budget cut to ZERO, period.
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Konrad says:
The proposed bill HR.97 (The Free Industry Act) section 3 reads -
“Nothing in the Clean Air Act shall be treated as authorizing or requiring the regulation of climate change or global warming.”
If Obama chooses stall all appropriations for the Eco-thieves Paralysing America by vetoing HR.97, he will also be reassociating himself with the words “global warming”. After he was laughed at in his first SOTU address when he used the term I am sure Obama is aware that the original name for the hoax is politically toxic. A veto comes with a bonus prize, a colourful neck tie with an interesting dead sea bird motif.
Tip of the iceberg.
They can defund these boondoggles ... NOW!
How can climate scientists spend so much money? (FY 2011 42% increase)
climatequotes.com ^ | Jan. 8, 2011
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2653843/posts
Until a few days ago I knew that the US government spent an excessive amount of taxpayer money on climate change research. It was just a general notion; I had read occasional articles showing the funding of certain agencies like NASA but I didn’t know many specifics. Then on New Years Day, I wrote a very quick article where I randomly picked a document from a Google search showing funding for climate change.
The numbers astonished me. I decided to take a closer look.
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GregO says:
Just wrote a nice long email to my (republican) representative. He now knows just exactly where this voter stands.
I’m really glad the EPA is on the radar screen and ideally (IMHO) it would be a positive development if this became a political litmus-test issue. For me, it already is. Climategate did more to politicize me than any issue to date.
The public face of government supported alarmism just isn’t pretty: Holdren, (a Malthusian crackpot), Hansen (mildly psychotic), Gore (thoroughly corrupt), Obama (an incompetent puppet out of his league), all the poodle publications and MSM and it appears to me the public is getting ever more sick of their puerile nonsense each passing day.
CAGW could become a huge wedge issue; and it would if more of the public knew how it is being “played” by insiders. Just bringing up this legislation could start the ball rolling.
Reading it now.
Global Warming on Free Republic
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boballab says:
R. Gates says:
February 11, 2011 at 8:58 pm
More likely this makes a great show for the Republicans, but when the final bill comes out as it is combined with the Senate bill, this little side-show will be stripped from the bill that comes before the President. IMO, this is interesting theatrics for the Republicans, but likely nothing more.
First showing he didn’t read the article, Mr. Gates shows that he doesn’t understand the legislative process. You see Mr. Gates the Senate doesn’t have final say. You should read up on the Budget Process here first:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_budget_process
Pay particular attention to this part:
Once both houses pass the resolution, selected Representatives and Senators negotiate a conference report to reconcile differences between the House and the Senate versions. The conference report, in order to become binding, must be approved by both the House and Senate.
So first you are counting on every Dem in the Senate to side with removing that from the bill (not likely with 23 up for re-election and one already known Dem, Joe Manchin, who opposes the EPA regulation of CO2 or a Cap and trade bill) and second even if the Senate removes it from the bill they have to negotiate with the House GOP over the final bill and it has to re pass the House. So then you are counting on the GOP to reverse course in the reconciliation process and if that happens you need a third step: The House to pass it without the cuts. Good luck trying to get the Trifecta, you have better odds down at Santa Anita then that happening in the Congress.
So I can see the headlines now if the Senate kills the bill by removing the cuts:
Senate Dems kill Funding bill, shut down government:
Essential services were stopped today when Senate Democrats would not pass the funding bill over a 3 billion dollar cut to the EPA. In a move of cut your nose off to spite your face the Senate shut the entire EPA down by removing funding for the entire federal government in an effort to keep 3 billion in other spending for it….
Just replace the Senate Dems with Obama if the cuts remain and he vetos it.
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Ed Waage says:
Details of the House Appropriations Committee proposed budget are here:
http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=261&Month=2&Year=2011
The list of programs cut is here:
http://republicans.appropriations.house.gov/_files/ProgramCutsFY2011ContinuingResolution.pdf
Besides the EPA, NSF is cut by $750 million compared to the FY 11 request. NASA is cut by $580 million.
And, speaking of Algore, he’s been laying pretty low this winter, hasn’t he?
Like the robins of spring, he will make his yearly appearance at the first sign of a “heat wave” or hurricane this summer.
I think it’s unreasonable to completely defund the EPA, unless the intention is to completely de-populate it of nuts, crackpots, weenies, obviously unqualified EEOC cases, Communists, Greens (essentially the same), political hacks, and so on. Then reboot it, with the ORIGINAL mission it had in the early 70’s. This place would look like and have the life expectancy of Russia by now without it.
No I haven’t heard much from him either.
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