Fw: Whew. Squeaker. We win 47 - 53, Defeat Murkowski Rez
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From: ecrip...@googlegroups.com
[mailto:ecrip...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul
Beaudette
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:50 PM
To: ECRI
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Subject: [ECRI PolComm] Fwd: Whew. Squeaker. We
win 47 - 53, Defeat Murkowski Rez
from our NWF esteemed representative Don and Emily.
paul
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From: Don Hooper <hoo...@nwf.org>
Date: Thu, Jun 10, 2010
at 4:50 PM
Subject: Whew. Squeaker. We win 47 - 53, Defeat Murkowski
Rez
To: Emily Maxwell <maxw...@nwf.org>
Cc: Don Hooper <hoo...@nwf.org>
A historic victory moments ago with the Senate pushing back the effort to block the Obama administration from pursuing carbon pollution regulations. For the first time, we have Congress and a president working together to take serious action on climate change.
Northeast Team,
This afternoon, after a contentious, near-party-line, six-hour rhetorical slugfest, the US Senate narrowly beat-back an attempt by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski and 40 co-sponsors to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of the authority to regulate Greenhouse Gas emissions. By a 47 - 53 vote, EPA retained the regulatory authority over Carbon pollution that it won in a 2007 US Supreme Court case brought by the state of Massachusetts.
Today’s debate on the Murkowski Resolution is widely regarded as a warm-up bout for the larger, more furious debate we hope will occur this summer on a Comprehensive Energy, Green Jobs and Climate bill.
Today, regrettably not a single Republican voted to allow the EPA (through the Clean Air Act) to regulate Carbon and other Greenhouse gasses.
The Democratic majority lost the votes of six of its members:
Sen Evan Bayh (D-New Hampshire); Sen Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana); Sen Blanche Lincoln (D-Arkansas); Sen Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska); Sen Mark Prior (D-Arkansas); Sen Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia).
The Good News is that at long last, the EPA can begin to get the United States carbon emissions under control. Some fine speeches were made By Vermont Senators Sanders and Leahy, Sen Shaheen of NH; Sen Kerry of Mass, and beauts by Sens Reed + Whitehouse; Sen Lieberman of Conn, Sen Shumer of NY, and Sen Lautenberg of NJ spoke persuasive for the defeat of the Rez. I regret we’ve probably omitted some good ones here.
The Bad News is that three Northeastern Senators we had hoped would cast a conservation vote on this first test of Climate in this Congress, disappointed us profoundly: Sen Scott Brown (R- Massachusetts) Sen Susan Collins (R-Maine); Sen Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). The other Northeastern Republican, Sen Judd Gregg of NH, was a co-sponsor of the Resolution and was never expected to vote with us.
The really Ugly News is the closeness of the vote (shoulda been a slam dunk for us), the degree of Global Warming denial some Electeds are willing to admit to, the antipathy toward hard science, and the rampant bureaucrat bashing that marred the posturing.
Whew,
Don and Emily
Emily Maxwell
Northeast Regional Representative
National Wildlife Federation
149 State Street Suite 1
Montpelier, VT 05602
(802) 552-4323 (office)
(802) 222-1399 (cell)
Don Hooper
New England Regional Rep
National Wildlife Federation
Northeast Regional Center
149 State Street, Suite 1
Montpelier, VT 05602
802 552 4321 land line
802 272 1241 cell phone
"Keep the Wild Alive"
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