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Aching Agenda?

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Aching Agenda?

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 hold some senate Democrats are fearful of what voting for cap and trade could meet for their reelection bid next year. The Obama administration hoped 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 -- mechanic was work with the department of energy and transportation. He's the president of NWR strategies I expect him to be here. Aren't so what do you make of the cap and trade legislation as it's playing out now passed in the house with a lot of arm twisting some folks that from the speaker. It's kind of stalled in the Senate and -- it can afford any time soon."

" I don't not and its current. Incarnation I think we're probably get them on C a gang of whatever 101242. Senators come forward some little different that. Does senate process to date has been a bit of a train wreck."

" And I know that me 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 at 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 sobbed they've proposal come up from senators Kerry and boxer that seemed like it was getting a lot farther than what we saw on house. Did they need to add water down addicted to hope to get passage."

" Well I think to caring about shifting his as a practical matter dad in fourteen on senate Democrats sent a letter to. On senator Reid last week that said look -- 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 chaired 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 home skeptics are and where I'm Kerry and boxer are kind of a Cassini carries in the middle both of these both sponsoring a bill. And then trying to figure out its alternative to go from deep into some middle ground there and what kind of compromise could be -- 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 it's 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 hill I can't -- very much for your insight yet."

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