Senate Abandons Climate Effort, Dealing Blow to President - NYTimes.com
One Democrat who opposed capping emissions, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, indicated that ripening EPA regulations would not be the deciding factor on his future vote on climate policies. "I have such a view of the balance of power between the three branches of government that I don't feel like the EPA's in any position to threaten us," he said after leaving yesterday's caucus meeting.
...Several sources in the Senate and in the environmental community have privately complained that the administration failed to take a leadership role.
Browner and Reid both insisted that was wrong.
"President Obama personally has talked to me many times about energy legislation and moving forward," Reid said. "So for anyone to think the president hasn't been involved in this simply is mistaken."
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