Energy bill still stuck in neutral - Glenn Thrush and Meredith Shiner - POLITICO.com

The worst oil spill in American history hasn’t jump-started climate change legislation in a gridlocked, shell-shocked Senate, as many Democrats had hoped it would.
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“Nothing is going to get 60 votes,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who pulled out of bipartisan climate talks earlier this year, hobbling the effort.

“Cap and trade as we know it today is dead,” Graham said. “The Kerry-Lieberman-Graham thing fell apart because ... I just never saw a commitment from the Democratic leadership to pursue it.”

Senate to vote on Obama’s power grab | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

On Thursday, the Senate will vote on S.J.Res.26, a resolution to block EPA from usurping powers never delegated to it by Congress. Failure means allowing EPA to go forward, apparently in flagrant violation of our constitutional traditions simply because too many in Congress desire, but can’t bear to take responsibility for, more of the Obama agenda.