Guy who wrote a global warming bill now suggests he doesn't really believe in global warming?!

Boucher seeks [to explain why he voted FOR the climate swindle bill] - Kingsport Times-News Online

KINGSPORT — U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher voted for cap-and-trade legislation but said he doesn’t endorse the House-passed version of the bill.
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“I voted for it because I had to do that to be part of the process and to make the changes that have been made,” Boucher said of the bill that passed by a seven-vote margin in the House and is now being considered by the Senate.

Boucher stressed his interest in climate change has not been driven by a moral belief to control greenhouse gases.

What is driving his involvement, said Boucher, is the U.S. Supreme Court determined two years ago that greenhouse gases are pollutants.
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Boucher added the easy thing for him to do with the cap-and-trade bill would have been to just vote no.

“And I could have done that,” he said. “But that would have been a cowardly thing to do, and it would not have served well the interests of the district I represent with its large coal industry and the fact that so much of the electricity we consume is coal-generated. ... I would have been out of the debate.”

Oct '08: Boxer Statement on Dingell-Boucher Global Warming Bill

Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, made the following remarks regarding the draft global warming legislation released today by House Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell (D-MI) and Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D-VA):

Senator Boxer said: "I am pleased that Chairman Dingell and Chairman Boucher have decided to write a comprehensive global warming bill. I am not going to comment on the details of the draft plan today, except to say that it is a very good sign of the commitment in the House to tackle global warming legislation in the next Congress."