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Published: Sun, 15 Nov 2009
Description: Will cap-and-trade be the next casualty for Obama?
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" Well President Obama may have to but -- climate change agenda on -- some senate Democrats are fearful of what voting for cap and trade could be their reelection -- next year. The Obama administration hope to have a deal in the works before the world summit in Copenhagen next month. But that doesn't look like it's happened to his -- Mike McCann and it was worked with the department of energy and transportation. He's the president of NWR strategies I think it seems to be here. Aren't so what do you make the cap and trade legislation as it's playing out now passed -- house with a lot of arm twisting some folks at from the speaker. It's kind of stalled in the Senate and do you think it's gonna move forward anytime soon."
" I don't not in its current. Incarnation I think we're probably -- on C a gang of whatever 101242. Senators come for was some a little different that. Does senate process to date has been a bit of a train wreck."
" And I know that -- you know we did CNET -- a few weeks back. From two senators we don't see joining up a lot we had Senator Kerry and senator Greyhound to me in two different sides of the aisle. Talking about the fact that they want to move climate change through the Senate. But then shortly after that we -- they've proposal come -- from senators Kerry and boxer that seem like it was getting a lot farther than what we saw on house. Did they need to add water -- down -- hope to get passage."
" Well I think -- Kerry -- as a practical matter dad in fourteen -- senate Democrats sent a letter to. On senator Reid last week that said look that this thing is not working for our states and it wasn't. You know. We -- moderate Democrat senators it was guys like Al Franken and shared by council sort of folks on the left as well and Kerry and Graham are trying to figure out -- spot between. Where the where the -- skeptics are and where I'm Kerry and boxer are kind of -- you've -- it carries in the middle both of these both sponsoring a bill. And then trying to figure out -- alternative to go from do you think there's some middle ground there and what kind of compromise -- see coming together I don't really see any compromise because no matter how you slice this. It's an energy tax -- tax on energy or it's an energy rationing plan but it at the core it means to make energy more expensive than. In a situation where we've lost seven and a half million jobs in the last eighteen months and three and a half million since the president took over. No is really in a move for higher energy prices and and I don't know how that gets financed. It's hard sell this plan especially everything else going on on the -- I can't thank you very much -- yet."
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