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----- Original Message -----
From: Susan Stephenson
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 4:40 PM
Subject: [interfaithpowerandlight] Climate Bill Blocked
In case you haven't heard the news, Republican opposition effectively
killed the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner bill today.
Here's an update from Katherine Silverthorne of the U.S. Climate Action
Network (of which IPL is a member):
At 9 this morning, Sen. Reid decided to put an end to the delay tactics
of the opposition and call for cloture on the Climate Security Act. The
final vote was 48 - 36 in favor of invoking cloture -- which would mean ending
the filibuster and considering the merits and possible amendments to the bill.
With 60 votes needed to end a filibuster, Reid did not get cloture.
What he did get was the strongest vote yet in the Senate on the
strongest climate bill to come before the Senate thus far. Several absent
senators put out statements saying that they would have voted to invoke cloture
if they were in DC, including: Obama, Clinton, McCain, Kennedy, Biden and
Coleman. So, there are technically 54 Senators in favor of moving forward
to consider the bill.
Regardless of how you feel about the need to strengthen the underlying
bill, it is significant to note that support for a climate change bill has
increased significantly.
The next step is to ensure some accountability for these votes.
Some senators will need to be reinforced for this tough vote because they
will certainly be hearing from industry opponents. Other Senators should
hear that voting against cloture, and therefore not even being willing to debate
how to tackle climate change, is irresponsible and unacceptable.
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Many thanks to those of you who took time to call your senators and
generate grassroots support over the past week. Although it's very disappointing
that the debate was cut short before the merits of the bill and all the
amendments could really be considered, momentum does seem to be building for
action on climate.
Over 1,000 letters were generated from all our states that got the national
action alert. The breakdown of the vote is below, along with a link to a
Washington Post article:
Senate
Republicans Block Climate Change Bill
By Steven Mufson, Juliet Eilperin
and William Branigin
Senate Republicans today effectively killed a global warming bill
that would have required the United States to make major cuts in greenhouse gas
emissions in the coming decades.
as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate
Vote Summary
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dole (R-NC)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Sununu (R-NH)
Tester (D-MT)
Warner (R-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brown (D-OH)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Crapo (R-ID)
Domenici (R-NM)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lugar (R-IN)
McConnell (R-KY)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Wicker (R-MS)
Byrd (D-WV)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coleman (R-MN)
Conrad (D-ND)
Cornyn (R-TX)
DeMint (R-SC)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Kennedy (D-MA)
McCain (R-AZ)
Obama (D-IL)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Susan Stephenson
Executive Director
The Regeneration
Project
Interfaith Power and
Light
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Phone: (415) 561-4891
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