Rep Rangel Says Pelosi Wants Climate Bill Before Health Bill

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said Tuesday House Democratic leaders want to move climate legislation through the House before taking up a bill to overhaul the U.S. health system.

Rangel told a meeting of the U.S. Council for International Business that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D.-Calif., told him Tuesday, during an hour-long meeting to discuss health care, that she wants to move a climate bill first.

However, Rangel immediately back-pedaled from that statement when queried by reporters following his remarks at the conference. "I may have misspoke, until we say we've got to do climate change," Rangel said.

"We've got a head of steam with the health bill," Rangel said. He said the order in which the House considers health, climate, or trade bills is less important.

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As the mind-numbing debate over Waxman-Markey grinds on, we should be thankful for the unintended entertainment provided by Joe Romm’s rants and contortionist logic.

NWF continues to blatantly promote the greatest scientific fraud in history: "Flat Earth Society Meets in DC"

The debate over climate change in America has long since moved past the questions of "Is the planet warming?" (yes) and "Is man-made pollution to blame?" (it is) to "What should we do about it?" (ACES).

But in DC this week, the flat earth society is meeting to try to turn back the clock...