Obama's drive for climate change bill delayed

[bijou]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's push for quick action by Congress on climate change legislation suffered a setback on Thursday when the U.S. Senate committee leading the drive delayed work on the bill until September.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer said her self-imposed deadline of early August for finishing writing a bill to combat global warming has been put off until after Congress returns from a recess that ends in early September.

"We'll do it as soon as we get back" from that break, Boxer told reporters. Asked if this delay jeopardizes chances the Senate will pass a bill this year, Boxer said, "Not a bit ... we'll be in (session) until Christmas, so I'm not worried about it."

But Boxer did not guarantee Congress will be able to finish a bill and deliver it to Obama by December, when he plans to attend an international summit on climate change in Copenhagen. ...


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR2009070901998_pf.html

[DumbAss Tanker]

A 60-day reprieve from a fiscal death sentence.

[Traveshamockery]

That's a start. 

[Karin]

Meanwhile, we rabble rousers will continue to work to fight it tooth and nail.  No vacations for us. 

[Chris_]

At this point, I'm friggin' glad that Congress only works robs us blind 104 days a year.  I don't know that my wallet could take any more than that.

[AllosaursRus]

Where can I sign up for a job that has full pay for just 104 frikkin days? For cripes sake, that's better than the teachers union!!!!!!!!!!!

And these AssHats actually are working for us! What a joke! I realize they go "home" and supposedly confer with their constituents, but WTF? You ever try to get an audience with one of these slip streamers?

[Bluesuiter-Retired]

What has got many, including a good number of democrats, concerned is that neither china or india are bound by the rule standards. 

While the U.S. is bankrupting itself implementing those new standards the chinese and indians are sitting back pumping 4 times more pollutants into the atmosphere than we've been pumping without the new standards and laughing all the way to the bank.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Where can I sign up for a job that has full pay for just 104 frikkin days? For cripes sake, that's better than the teachers union!!!!!!!!!!!

And these AssHats actually are working for us! What a joke! I realize they go "home" and supposedly confer with their constituents, but WTF? You ever try to get an audience with one of these slip streamers?

In that case, you don't even want to know how their pension system works. 

[Wineslob]

What has got many, including a good number of democrats, concerned is that neither china or india are bound by the rule standards. 
While the U.S. is bankrupting itself implementing those new standards the chinese and indians are sitting back pumping 4 times more pollutants into the atmosphere than we've been pumping without the new standards and laughing all the way to the bank.

That is the proof that all the "climate changed" crap is just that, crap. It's nothing more than world "punishment" against the US.

Eurofags.............................................

[Chris_]

I watched a show on the tube last night....they were whining about beach erosion in Hawaii.  One guy blamed it all on sea/retaining walls.  He said there'd be plenty of beach area left if those walls were not in place.  Of course with them gone, the beaches would be a couple of hundred yards farther inland....  Another woman complained about how the shorelines had changed since she moved there in 1960.  The commentator then blamed it all on globalwarming as a matter of fact.