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House Oversight Panel's Hearing Plan Could Signal GOP Shift On Climate
Power-eng ^ | 2/19/13

Posted on 02/24/2013 1:58:02 PM PST by Libloather

House oversight panel Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has agreed to Democrats' request to hold one or more hearings on economic risks from climate change, but while the decision appears to be a significant break from House GOP leaders' opposition to climate hearings it is unclear whether it will change other committees' reluctance to hold such hearings.

Given the uncertainty over the fate of climate change hearings in the Republican-controlled House this year, Democrats are launching a new “Safe Climate Caucus” with a strategy of daily speeches to pressure GOP leadership into addressing climate. The caucus “is banding together to end the conspiracy of silence in the House of Representatives about the dangers of climate change,” said House energy panel ranking member Henry Waxman (D-CA).

Issa's decision to begin hold hearings on the risks from climate change is in response to a request by oversight panel ranking member Elijah Cummings (D-MD), which he submitted after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) listed potential fiscal liabilities from climate change as a “high risk” area in need of major reform.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: caucus; climatechange; demagogicparty; globalwarming; gop; house; partisanmediashills; sequester
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To: Libloather
Well now, even the chairman of the IPCC Climate Science panel has come out and admitted there has been no warming for 17 years. So now our fiscally bankrupt and insolvent Federal Government wants to waste even more money trying to fix a problem that does not need fixing.

IPCC Railroad engineer Pachauri acknowledges ‘No warming for 17 years’

Every single day the US Federal Government becomes even more fiscally, morally and intellectually bankrupt.

21 posted on 02/24/2013 3:43:27 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: justa-hairyape

I can prove that climate change isn’t about climate simply by pointing to the fact that we’re erecting inefficient windmills at the same time that we’re tearing out dams that could produce electricity efficiently and effectively AND greenly.

Its about control and money (subsidies)


22 posted on 02/24/2013 3:54:54 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Libloather

This is the Holy Grail that every politician in history has sought. They have finally figured out how to tax everything including the air that you breathe.


23 posted on 02/24/2013 3:57:15 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: Rocky

Sandra Fluke didn’t even need to appear before a committee to create a row. That was a Rat put-up when the GOP refused to put her before the real committee without proper vetting. The Rats win this game coming and going.


24 posted on 02/24/2013 4:00:21 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: cripplecreek
Its about control and money (subsidies).

And it looks like we can apply the way the US government is handling Climate Change, with the methods it has used to handle every other aspect of our life's. Facts do not matter. Truths do not matter. All that matters is their control and our money.

25 posted on 02/24/2013 4:40:46 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: dfwgator

Is he ever on the right side of any issue?


26 posted on 02/24/2013 4:48:54 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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I bet Issa wants to hold this hearing just to get it over with so he can tell the libs, "Dream on, suckas!"

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27 posted on 02/25/2013 12:40:01 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Happy New Year!)
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