Boxer-Kerry Climate Change [Scam] Bill Faces Uphill Battle | Newsweek Politics | Newsweek.com

Privately, Democratic Senate staffers admit they're taking their cues from the White House, which is signaling to senators that once health care is done, reform of the financial sector is President Obama's next priority.
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One member Reid will have to rein in is the newly minted chair of the agriculture committee, Blanche Lincoln, a conservative Arkansas Democrat who's been a holdout on health-care reform. Ranking member Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.)—who tells NEWSWEEK that Waxman-Markey was a "pretty horrible piece of legislation"—says Lincoln's positions on climate change run parallel to his. Boxer's legislation will build on Waxman-Markey, which Lincoln calls a "complete nonstarter." She's urging the Senate to move slowly. As chair of agriculture, she'll be under enormous pressure from the powerful farm lobby to dilute Waxman-Markey measures. Farmers worry about the costs that global-warming legislation may impose on their energy-intensive business. They successfully flexed their muscles in the House, achieving a series of last-minute compromises. They'll lobby actively for more generous offsets and will find an ally in Lincoln, a staunch defender of crop subsidies. Lincoln's reelection campaign next year in manufacturing-heavy Arkansas will further dampen her support for comprehensive legislation. She's in a tight race, and if the bill is pushed further into 2010—and closer to Election Day—she'll shy away from any bold moves to regulate greenhouse gases. In a statement e-mailed to NEWSWEEK, Lincoln said she wants to lower carbon emissions but that "I remain concerned that indirect costs from a cap-and-trade system may outweigh the benefits."

Daily Number: [Less than half of Americans believe in global warming fraud] - Pew Research Center

About half (48%) of white mainline Protestants believe the earth is warming as the result of human activity -- roughly the same proportion as among all Americans (47%) -- but only a third of white evangelical Protestants (34%) share that belief.

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