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Senior Democrats floating bill to block EPA on plans for greenhouse gas rules
The Hill ^ | 2/3/10 | Ben Genam

Posted on 02/03/2010 10:00:39 AM PST by pissant

House committee chairmen from Minnesota and Missouri are floating legislation to block planned EPA greenhouse gas rules.

The effort underscores unease among senior Democrats from conservative-leaning states about Obama administration emissions policy.

Reps. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) and Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) — who head the Agriculture and Armed Services committees, respectively — introduced a plan Tuesday that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from placing limits on heat-trapping emissions from power plants, factories and other sources.

“I have no confidence that the EPA can regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act without doing serious damage to our economy,” Peterson said in a prepared statement. “Americans know we’re way too dependent on foreign oil and fossil fuels in this country — and I’ve worked hard to develop practical solutions to that problem — but Congress should be making these types of decisions, not unelected bureaucrats at the EPA.”

Peterson has been a thorn in the side of Democratic leaders on climate change. He won major concessions for agriculture in the big climate change and energy bill the House approved in June, but recently said he’d vote against the bill if it comes back before the House.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhoepa; climate; co2; epa; globalwarming; gore; green; greens; ipcc; larrysinclairslover; obama
The rats are scurrying off the SS Obama
1 posted on 02/03/2010 10:00:42 AM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

More and more of them are thinking about that unemployment line.


2 posted on 02/03/2010 10:02:59 AM PST by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: pissant
Question, are they scurrying off the Obama liner or the liner Obama represents?
3 posted on 02/03/2010 10:04:54 AM PST by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: pissant

4 posted on 02/03/2010 10:05:24 AM PST by Lucky9teen (A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is just putting on its shoes.)
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To: pissant

Thes guys know if the EPA implements these regulations, the Republicans will beat the hell out of them over this in this years elections.


5 posted on 02/03/2010 10:05:42 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: Lucky9teen

THAT’s a good one!


6 posted on 02/03/2010 10:07:24 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Note to self: Never post in a thread about religion again.)
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To: Lucky9teen

Perfect!


7 posted on 02/03/2010 10:08:26 AM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: VaRepublican

The former, only to save their hides


8 posted on 02/03/2010 10:08:44 AM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant
“I have no confidence that the EPA can regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act without doing serious damage to our economy,” Peterson said in a prepared statement. “Americans know we’re way too dependent on foreign oil and fossil fuels in this country — and I’ve worked hard to develop practical solutions to that problem — but Congress should be making these types of decisions, not unelected bureaucrats at the EPA.”

Wow! It's hard enough to find a Republican with a set. I'm simply shocked to see a few Democrats left in congres with them.

9 posted on 02/03/2010 10:10:18 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Marsha Coakley's been teabagged. Populists Hugo Chavez and Hussein Obama are next.)
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To: pissant

Then we always have to fear the Liner, cause after this captain goes the ship remains.


10 posted on 02/03/2010 10:10:58 AM PST by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: pissant

BO’s/BS’s coattails are growing shorter.


11 posted on 02/03/2010 10:13:47 AM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: jazusamo
More and more of them are thinking about that unemployment line.

They are realizing that Obama sees them as expendable casualties in the ideological quest for Marxist Utopia, and have decided to save their own ratty hides.
12 posted on 02/03/2010 10:18:30 AM PST by LostInBayport (2010 - The Second American Revolution. The first shot was fired 1/19/2010 -- here in Massachusetts!)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Eliminate all funding for the EPA!


13 posted on 02/03/2010 10:22:25 AM PST by Roklok
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To: Hardastarboard
That's a good one!

How about this one?

Global Warming

14 posted on 02/03/2010 10:23:14 AM PST by doc11355
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To: pissant

Re-election is not the sure thing it was a year ago!!!!


15 posted on 02/03/2010 10:47:18 AM PST by ontap
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To: VeniVidiVici
The Republicans have been saying this, but the press doesn't report it. If it isn't reported, it never happened.
16 posted on 02/03/2010 10:48:51 AM PST by wbarmy (Hard core, extremist, and right-wing is a little too mild for my tastes.)
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To: WL-law; Para-Ord.45; Desdemona; Little Bill; IrishCatholic; mmanager; enough_idiocy; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

17 posted on 02/03/2010 12:24:38 PM PST by steelyourfaith (FReepers were opposed to Obama even before it was cool to be against Obama.)
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To: pissant
Good news. More Dems needed to oppose the progressive agenda.
18 posted on 02/03/2010 1:12:48 PM PST by opentalk
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To: VeniVidiVici

Colin was also a Fairtax supporter...


19 posted on 02/03/2010 2:38:29 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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