Today's EEI newsletter reports that:
Sen. Boxer May Form Subcommittee Focused on Climate Change Issues
The incoming chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is considering establishing a subcommittee totally focused on climate change issues – a maneuver that could "spark a race between Sen. Joseph Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Thomas Carper, D-Del., to win" the chairmanship, Inside EPA reported today. Boxer was quoted as saying: "We've had one hearing in the past four years on global warming. All the facts have to be laid on the table. The legislative process starts with laying the groundwork and having debates."
Wrote the newsletter: "Sources say the question of which Democrat will lead any new subcommittee with jurisdiction over climate change is complicated because Lieberman and Carper each have a claim to the issue. According to one source, Lieberman was the leading Democrat on a subcommittee that oversaw clean air and climate change issues in the 108th Congress, but gave up the slot to lead Democrats on the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee when that committee gained new jurisdiction over homeland security matters. After the 108th Congress, the EPW subcommittee was stripped of its jurisdiction over climate change issues."
The Senate Democratic Caucus has named four new members to the Environment and Public Works Committee – Sens. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has departed from the panel to take a seat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Inside EPA, Nov. 17.
I think Boxer's idea is a great one -- a sumcomittee devoted purely to climate change is desperately needed. But Lieberman's the wrong man for the job; he's had plenty of time to get serious about climate change and he hasn't done it. He'd been a rubber stamp for the Bush administration and a pawn of big energy companies. I hope Boxer can work this out.
And, hey, Obama. You're useless, you know that? You're so fucking busy trying to positon yourself to run for president that you make me sick. You are, in many ways, the new Lieberman.
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Hecate, check out this week's Counterspin, FAIR's radio program. There's a guy on who skewers Obama and Harold Ford. Said he thinks Blacks in this nation would have been put back significantly if Ford had been elected to the Senate!
And does not think any better of Obama. Said Barack had been a fiery protester of the ida of the Iraq Invasion and had several very strong speeches on his web site. When he announced for statewide office, he took them off the site. Whoa, there, guy!
(Oh, and if you can get away to the Caribbean, a passport will be required for returning to the US as of 1/8/07--not sure if needed to leave. But, it's coming.)
Counterspin also lambasted the MCM for its sexism concerning Pelosi and Clinton. The shrieking harpies!
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