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Democrats Unveil New Climate Change Bill

Posted on October 07, 2008

Here's an indicator of priorities: House Democrats today released their first piece of draft legislation for the next session of Congress, and it's a climate change bill. This summer, Congress failed to enact climate change legislation after the leading bill, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, was rejected by the Senate. Democrats are eager to increase their majorities in both the Senate and House next session so they can quickly pass a climate change bill and have it signed into law by the next President. At the center of the new draft bill (pdf file) is a cap-and-trade program des...

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