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clubforgrowth.org - 6/23/2009
HOUSE Key Vote Alert - Climate Change
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KEY VOTE ALERT "NO" ON WAXMAN-MARKEY CAP-AND-TRADE BILL (HR 2454) The Club for Growth urges all House members to vote "NO" on the Waxman-Markey bill that would impose a cap-and-trade scheme in order to effect climate change. The bill is expected to be considered as early as this week. ...
Strassel: The Climate Change Climate Change
online.wsj.com - 6/26/2009
Strassel: The Climate Change Climate Change
— online.wsj.com — Steve Fielding recently asked the Obama administration to reassure him on the science of man-made global warming.... When the administration proved unhelpful, Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation. If you haven't heard of this ... (more) Strassel: The Climate Change Climate Change

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nytimes.com - 6/28/2009
House Passes Bill to Address Threat of Climate Change
— nytimes.com — WASHINGTON — The House passed legislation on Friday intended to address global warming and transform the way... the nation produces and uses energy. The vote was the first time either house of Congress had approved a bill meant to curb the heat-trapping ... (more) House Passes Bill to Address Threat of Climate Change

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capitalgainsandgames.com - 6/29/2009
Climate Vote Shows Why I Am Still a Man Without a Party
— capitalgainsandgames.com — I had three reactions to yesterday's cap-and-trade vote, two of which came from The New York Times... article that I read this morning and one of which came from Stan's very smart post . Here they are: From the article, "Only eight Republicans ... (more) Climate Vote Shows Why I Am Still a Man Without a Party

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Obama's Misplaced Energy: Natural Gas a Better 'Alternative' to Power America
finance.yahoo.com 6/23/2009 — The House of Representatives is set to vote on an energy and climate bill by Friday. The bill's "cap and trade" component is designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions, a major part of the Obama Administration's push to green energy. ...
CBO Cost Estimate of Cap & Trade Pulls Out All the Gimmicks — Mises Economics Blog
On Friday the House is expected to vote on the Waxman-Markey climate change and energy bill, which contains an aggressive cap-and-trade program. Critics have pointed out that it could impose serious harms on the U.S. economy with little environmental benefit. The CBO entered the fray [.pdf] ...
Energy Bill Clears the House, But Hurdles & Open Questions Remain — Earth2Tech
The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 has just cleared its biggest hurdle yet, winning approval from the House of Representatives in a close 219-212 vote late on Friday. The bill has already had a long and bumpy ride since a draft began circulating nearly three months ago — ...
Friday's Daily News - Energy Tax Edition — Club for Growth
The House is set to vote on a big, ugly, anti-growth energy tax bill later today. I'll be blogging (and tweeting ) about it throughout the day. THE DAILY NEWS The Climate Change Climate Change - Kimberley Strassel, WSJ Waxman-Markey: Man-Made Disaster - IBD Editorial Pelosi Buys Off ...
More on the Estimated Costs to Households of a Cap-and-Trade Program — Congressional Budget Office Peter R. Orszag "Director's Blog"
Last Friday, CBO released an analysis of the average cost per household that would result from the greenhouse-gas (GHG) cap-and-trade program in the American Clean Energy Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454). In that analysis, CBO examined the effects of the bill as it would apply in 2020 but ...
Thursday's Daily News — Club for Growth
THE DAILY NEWS The Cap and Tax Fiction - Wall Street Journal Editorial Climate Change Bill All Pain, No Gain - OC Register Editorial Climate Bill Is A Terrible Deal for Taxpayers - National Review Editorial Cap-and-Trade = Economy Killer - Myron Ebell, New York Post For Moderates, ...
House Passes Global Warming Bill — Breaking News: CBS News
Sweeping Legislation Calls For First-Ever Limited On Pollution Linked To Climate Change
So Waxman-Markey is Still Alive — Coyote Blog
Via the AZ Republic: House Democrats narrowly won a key test vote Friday on sweeping legislation designed to combat global warming and usher in a new era of cleaner energy. Republicans said the bill included the largest tax increase in American history. The vote was 217-205 to advance ...
Email to Club Members — Club for Growth
We sent an email to Club members this afternoon asking them to call their representative and urge him or her to vote NO on the Waxman-Markey energy tax bill, which is expected to be on the House floor tomorrow. In response, Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite's office called and told me that she is ...
Charles Rangel Keeps a Cool Head — Cato @ Liberty
Pat Michaels and I have written an op-ed on the climate change bill due for a vote tomorrow in Congress, and our opinions on its provisions are summarized pretty well there. In short, the bill appears to offer very little in the way of reduced global warming in return for harm to the domestic ...
The Economic Damage From Cap &Trade — Stefan Karlsson's blog
Paul Krugman and other supporters of the so-called "cap and trade" (more accurately called "cap and tax") scheme have cited a study from the Congressional Budget Office that argues that the scheme would impose only small costs to the economy ("merely" $175 per household and year). But even ...
Warren Buffett Slams Cap-and-Trade Bill — Club for Growth
Pelosi Takes A Gamble On Climate Change Bill — Breaking News: CBS News
House Speaker Has Scheduled A Vote This Week On A Climate Change Bill That Some Democrats Are Still Hesitant About
Silly relief for this wonk — Angry Bear
rdan I have been chasing information on the budget deficits and potential impacts, the US trade deficit, and the cap and trade arguments linked to HR 2454 Waxman-Markey bill of hundreds of pages. Mostly it was figuring out how assumptions in data and baselines (such as the CBO reports) made a ...
BIG GOVERNMENT ALERT! — Club for Growth
In an unexpected move, House Democrats are going to bring their anti-growth climate change bill to the floor this week. Here are more details .
How Allocations to Protect Households Can Actually Hurt Them — Common Tragedies
A previous post gave a small introduction to Local Distribution companies (LDCs) and allowance distribution. I would recommend checking it out since LDC allocation is central to Waxman-Markey. It is so important, that I would wager quite a bit that Waxman-Markey or any climate bill will NOT ...
Estimated Costs to Households From the Cap-and-Trade Provisions of H.R. 2454 — Congressional Budget Office Peter R. Orszag "Director's Blog"
Yesterday, CBO released an analysis that examines the average cost per household that would result from the greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454, as it was reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce) and how that cost would ...