Global warming bill stalled in Senate | Washington Examiner

The chair of a Senate committee in charge of writing a global warming bill said there would be no effort to draft the legislation until September because the chamber is too busy grappling with how to write a massive health care reform bill.
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The Senate has already drafted a separate energy bill that calls for more domestic oil drilling.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the two bills would be combined for a Senate vote some time in the fall, but the climate bill delay could jeopardize that effort.
Part of the problem for Democrats is the push by some to include in the climate bill a cap and trade proposal that would require polluters to buy and trade costly permits. Such a bill passed narrowly in the House last month. But many Senate Democrats are opposed to cap and trade which guarantees Boxer would have a difficult time writing a bill that would pass the Senate.