Friday, June 26, 2009

The house has caved... now on to the senate for the greatest tax in American history.

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House passes climate-change bill

The House of Representatives passed a sweeping climate-change bill Friday – a major victory for President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that left Republicans fuming about a “national energy tax” they said would exacerbate the nation’s economic woes.

The vote was extremely close – 219-212, with eight Republicans voting yes and 44 Democrats voting no. And the debate leading up to it was intense.

In the hours before passage, Rep. Geoff Davis, a Republican from Kentucky, said the cap-and-trade bill represented the “economic colonization of the heartland” by New York and California. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) called the bill a “scam” that would do nothing but satisfy “the twisted desires of radical environmentalists.” Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) called it a “massive transfer of wealth” from the United States to foreign countries.....

2 Comments:

Blogger Prime said...

Is there really any doubt that this bill will make it out of the senate?

We are in for it and the results will appear within weeks of Obama signing it into law.

2:13 PM  
Blogger jhthompson said...

I agree, we are in for it now......but wow can you believe how we are being force fed these bills....3am receipt and vote tomorrow.

Where is the sound judgment and contemplation of yesteryear?

10:58 PM  

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