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Climate Change Debate Heats Up in Senate (Video)

October 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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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Inhofe Corrects Kerry on Climate Change Issues

October 28th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Kerry-Boxer Bill Kills American Jobs, Increases Energy Costs and Undermines Energy Security

October 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Details of the Kerry-Boxer climate change bill now the subject of hearings in the U.S. Senate bring to mind one question, “Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?” Unfortunately, this morbid humor offers little about which to laugh.

In a post three days ago, I warned you about what my friends in the oil [...]

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API: Kerry-Boxer Worse than Waxman-Markey

October 24th, 2009 · No Comments

My friends at the American Petroleum Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based group that represents some 400 companies involved in the oil and natural gas industry, sent me a note about an extremely-dangerous piece of legislation being sponsored by Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).  It contained the substance of a statement API President [...]

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Boxer-Kerry Climate Change Bill Faces Opposition (Update)

September 30th, 2009 · 3 Comments

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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