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Obama on Thursday called it "a vote of historic proportions ... that will open the door to a clean energy economy" and green jobs. "It will create millions of new jobs," Pelosi insisted.

Both Obama and Pelosi preferred to focus on the economic issues rather than on what environmentalists view as the urgency of reducing carbon emissions blamed for global warming.

The Rust Belt coal-state Democrats who have been sitting on the fence worry about how to explain their vote for higher energy prices to people back home—and how the vote might play out in elections next year.

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I am sick of thee blatant liars. We will still be in the negative numbers as far as jobs go. People cannot even pay their bills now and they want to hurt us more.

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"Democrats who have been sitting on the fence worry about how to explain their vote for higher energy prices to people back home"

Let them vote for it and WE WILL explain to the brain dead walking zombies out there exactly what the Senate is going to do to change their lives.

They wanted "change"? They'll be lucky to have pocket "change" left after the Democrats get done with their money.

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