Bob McCarty Writes

During the past month, I’ve published four posts about the Kerry-Boxer climate change bill and the detrimental impact it will have on the country if passed.  Today, I offer two videos from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearings on the Kerry-Boxer climate change bill.  If you’re like me, they will make you wonder [...]

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On Oct. 27, 2009, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) appeared before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to speak on behalf of the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill.  Senator Kerry spoke uncontested for 28 minutes, allowing no time for questions by members of the Committee.  In the video below, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) rebuts Senator [...]

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The headline of a Roll Call article describes the climate change legislation being introduced today by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) as “Radioactive.”  Many in the nation’s capitol agree.
At the American Petroleum Institute, President Jack Gerard offered some choice words for the measure serving as the Senate counterpart to the House’s similarly-destructive [...]

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Just a few days ago, the Guardian newspaper reported that the conservation charity WWF and an ad agency admitted that a press campaign comparing the loss of life in the New York 9/11 attacks and the Asian tsunami “should never have been made” (see ad campaign image at right).
Today, a Washington Independent report highlighted the [...]

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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) struck some early blows against global warming during his opening statement made this morning at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on global warming.  That statement, aimed primarily at Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the committee, appears below:
“Madame Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing today. This is [...]

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