Senate climate bill stuck in limbo for now | Reuters

(Reuters) - The compromise climate change proposal unveiled last week in the Senate is in legislative limbo, its fate apparently uncertain until at least next month.

The plan by Democratic Senator John Kerry and independent Senator Joseph Lieberman to reduce U.S. carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming is not the subject of any committee hearings; it's not being debated on the Senate floor; it's not even been formally introduced.

At a weekly luncheon that Democratic senators hold on Tuesdays to talk politics and policy, the nearly 1,000-page draft proposal was barely mentioned, according to senators who attended this week's closed-door meeting, the first since its unveiling.
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In the meantime, many senators are questioning whether a climate change/energy development bill will see the light of day in the Senate this year.

"My feeling is it's not going to be coming up this year, but if it does I will dig into it at great depth," Senator Carl Levin told Reuters.
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Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which has fought hard for a climate bill, said during a speech at the Brookings Institution, "I would never say there is no chance of getting it this year, but I think the chances are painfully small."