Pelosi pushes to pass climate-change [swindle] bill this week - San Jose Mercury News
Republicans have attacked the bill as an energy tax that will hurt average Americans and cripple the economy. "Cap-and-trade is nothing more than a tax which starts accruing the moment you flip on your light switch," Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, said in a fundraising letter for his party.
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This week, to win the support of farm-state members, Waxman agreed to let the Department of Agriculture, not the Environmental Protection Agency, administer a program giving farmers credits for conservation measures that keep carbon dioxide in the soil.
That decision, and some other concessions, drew the ire of Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch: "It's painful to learn of the latest negotiations over the climate legislation. Even some strong supporters of the Waxman-Markey legislation are now holding their noses, as if on the perimeter of a hog farm."
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