Excerpts from the:
Murkowski tries anew to block EPA regulators
By ERIKA BOLSTAD
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lisa Murkowski took her battle with the Environmental Protection Agency to the floor of the Senate today, saying she was left with no choice but to fight a federal agency she believes is “contemplating regulations that will destroy jobs while millions of Americans are doing everything they can just to find one.”
The Alaska Republican announced she would seek to keep the EPA from drawing up rules on greenhouse gas emissions from large emitters, such as power plants, refineries and manufacturers. Murkowski did it by filing a “disapproval resolution,” a rarely used procedural move that prohibits rules written by executive branch agencies from taking effect.
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“If Congress allows this to happen there will be severe consequences to our economy,” Murkowski said. “Businesses will be forced to cut jobs, if not move outside our borders or close their doors for good perhaps. Domestic energy production will be severely restricted, increasing our dependence on foreign suppliers and threatening our national security. Housing will become less affordable.”
She was immediately countered by Sen. Barbara Boxer, chairwoman of the committee that has done the most work on climate-change legislation: the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Murkowski’s disapproval resolution would essentially throw out the process by which the EPA found that greenhouse gases endanger public health, Boxer said.
She called Murkowski’s resolution an “unprecedented move to overturn a health finding by health experts and scientific experts in order to stand with the special interests.”
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Murkowski has as co-sponsors 38 fellow senators, including three Democrats: Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
Her move has prompted an aggressive response by environmentalists, who launched a radio and television advertising campaign in Anchorage and Washington, D.C., that focused on the role two industry lobbyists had in writing Murkowski’s original proposal last fall.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid also criticized Murkowski’s effort, saying recently during an event in New York sponsored by the Geothermal Energy Association that Murkowski’s proposal was “misguided.”
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Alaska seems to be the cool voice in the wilderness, I crack myself up. Maybe Sarah Palin will have a running mate.
Steve Goddard (16:07:30) :
Apparently the Democratic leadership learned nothing from Massachusetts on Tuesday.
Apparently not. They didn’t learn when they lost Virginia either.
Don’t it just figure that Boxer would lead the charge with her “settled science” endorsement of the EPA.
yes, to stand with the “special interests” of the american people. it’s depressing that we actually need someone to stand up to these buffoons.
April E. Coggins (19:33:18) :
You’re right, April, the insanity has not infected all members of the Democratic Party. The few who joined Senator Murkowski are proof of that.
Thank you, Senators Lisa Murkowski (R) and Mary Laundrieu (D), for having the courage to speak out and shame on you, Senator Barbara Boxer (D), for your support of EPA action that
a.) Has no valid scientific merit, and
b.) Threatens our national integrity.
It appears that EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Dr. Rajenda Pachauri, Chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are members of the same secret InterNational Academy of Propaganda (INAP).
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
Former NASA PI for Apollo
Emeritus Professor of
Nuclear & Space Studies
Pamela Gray (16:44:16) :
I am rapidly becoming a fan of Republicans! I hope that once they have
my interest, they don’t go all faith-based white on me.
I was born and raised a liberal Democrat and then I discovered in 1994 how I was being lied to. The more I followed independent sources, the more lies I found. I would suspect that most everything that you “know” about Republicans was told to you by the same people that told you AGW was indeed the Revealed Truth.
It seems obvious that if the “Legacy Media” was a part of the AGW hoax, then they have been a party to more hoaxes.
This comment is intended in all good faith. I have followed your comments over the last year or so and respect what you have to say.
It’s just that it pays to be sceptical of what we “know” and how we came to “know” it.
Regards,
Steamboat Jack
PS
I went off to Merchant Marine school in 1963 and retired in 1999 as Chief Engineer of a 32,000 shp steam turbine powered merchant marine ship. I guess that also would qualify me as an “old salt”.
But Mr. Karmali, you forgot the third, significantly less stark and more likely outcome now – the one that sounds like a toilet being flushed !!!
Like unions, the EPA started out with good intentions. I think the EPA should be abolished and we should start with a clean slate. As for Unions, they have far outlived their usefulness…
I take it you are new here? She’s a regular. Pamela sure as heck ain’t no troll!
Just abolish the EPA, they have outlived their usefulness. They are not needed anyway, since every state has a Department of Environmental Conservation or the equivalent. The EPA has become an overbearing and destructive Man-Bear-Pig.
My wife (a naturalized citizen) and I walked through cold rain and crappy slush to vote on Tuesday for Brown. We feared that what we were doing was a tilting-at-wind-mills effort, but we did it. Little did we know that when we won, the results would up-end the entire national and international geopolitical landscape (Obamacare, cap-and-trade, Copenhagen Accord). And now the EPA is on the ropes.
Sweet!
I can’t speak for Anthony, but my suggestion is very simple. Contact her office and voice your support for her action, then call your own Senator, and respectfully ask them if they plan on supporting this resolution. If they say they have not made a decision, strongly (but politely) recommend that they do, and that you have lots of friends that will be making voting decisions based on how and who supports this move. Tell them in no uncertain terms that the EPA finding is based on nonsense and it will lead to years of legal action and a major backlash in upcoming elections.
Then when you get off the phone sit down and write letters to and send them in too. Letters matter more than phone calls, but the time urgency of the matter, means they need to have their office staff tied up answering phones for the next week until the letters start to arrive. If your a registered Democrat tell them you are considering changing registrations based on recent behavior of congress.
They are back on their heals right now, so push hard!
Larry
Is Global Warming is not Man Made?
It is not.
So why waste trillion dollars on a non existence relationship between CO2 and global temperature?
Humph! about damn time!
Mike
Hey Pamela,
I can attest to the fact that all Republicans are not white, even in our state of Oregon. Religion is best left to the freedom we enjoy to chose our faith or lack of it.
It has been relatively El Nino balmy on our side of the state, huh?
I’m not sure if this has been brought to anyones attention yet.
Michael Mann get’s $500,000 in stimulus money. The payoff?
Unreal. Climategate Junk Scientist Michael Mann Awarded Half a Million in Stimulus Cash
Actually Old Salt, I kinda look like a troll…or an Irish Leprechaun, take your pick. I am more than an inch under 5 ft tall, more than half a century old, and have a very thick long mane of unruly red hair (you don’t know what a bad hair day is like till you’ve seen me at 5:30 AM). I have a voice much louder and deeper than my mini-me size and I work with middle school boys who have behavior problems. My goal is to become an Elementary Principal and I would so be your worst nightmare.
PS, yes, I am looking for that center fold copy.
Obama is obsessed with addressing climate change and will do whatever it takes to achieve that goal. He will veto any disapproval resolution that lands on his desk. There is no way around this without a two-thirds super-majority in both houses to override the veto. At this time, there are so many hard core liberals in Congress that this doesn’t seem very likely. This issue, as it pertains to the disapproval resolution process, is discussed on the Senate web site: http://tinyurl.com/yku9rrc (note: PDF)
Here is an excerpt:
Likely Need for Super-Majority
A joint resolution of disapproval, like any other proposed law, may be enacted only through being presented to the President for approval. If Congress passes a joint resolution disapproving a particular rule, a President who favors the rule can veto the measure. In that case the rule will take effect, unless a two-thirds vote in each house overrides the veto.
Experience shows that particular circumstances may arise under which this requirement may present little obstacle to congressional action. If, in the interim between promulgation of the rule and congressional action, a new administration unsympathetic to the rule assumes office, any disapproval resolution may not likely be vetoed in the first place. Congressional disapproval in 2001 of the ergonomics regulation proposed by the Clinton Administration in the previous year illustrates this situation. At that time, substantial congressional interest was expressed in using the Congressional Review Act to disapprove numerous other rules promulgated in the last months of the Clinton Administration as well. Although this interest did not result in other legislative action, some of the regulations in question were withdrawn or suspended by the new Bush Administration
Pamela Gray (16:44:16) :
I am rapidly becoming a fan of Republicans! I hope that once they have my interest, they don’t go all faith-based white on me. On this same note, I am liking the new Mass. Senator Brown very much. What an interesting character. He has tweaked noses on both sides of the isle.
To find the main problem with the GOP over the past 50 or so years, research the Dixiecrats and where many of them went after their split party from the DNC failed. Some went back to the DNC, some swapped the (D) after their names for an (R) but in truth remained Democrats. A small number, Strom Thurmond among them, really did change – not just party name but their values and ideals. (Thurmond was a staunch segregationist, when he was a Democrat. The DNC never ever forgives or forgets a Party Member who truly defects.)
The “moderate” Dixiecrats who saw the DNC stronghold in the southeast collapsing as they tried to maintain their segregationist grip, “switched” to the GOP just so they could get elected by people who just blindly vote for whomever has that (R) rather than bothering to dig in and find out what the candidate *really* is. (Same can be said for the folks who vote straight down the line for every (D)!)
Today the GOP is very much infested with the ideological offspring of the Dixiecrats, especially when it comes to fiscal irresponsibility, as we saw under Clinton when the public voted in a large GOP majority in both houses to block Clinton’s excesses. Unfortunately too many of them were RINOs (Republican In Name Only, DINO for the Reps sporting the donkey pin just so they can get elected in a solidly DNC State.) who were all too eager to dive into the “public money” trough.
Faced with what the “party of Lincoln” has become, it’s no wonder the Tea Party movement has become so popular. The DNC has jumped into the pit of socialism and communism – while the GOP has absorbed much of what was always rotten about the DNC, going back to the ideological roots of the Big Government Federalists of the 1700’s.
P.S. Ronald Reagan *was* a Democrat. He was President of the Screen Actors Guild for five consecutive terms. I expect that being steeped in that culture for so long is why when he first ran for public office he joined the Republicans. Not as a RINO but a *true* Anti-Federalist Republican. Like Thurmond, the Democrats never forgave and constantly attacked him, still does so long after his death.
P.P.S. I liken “climategate” unto the 1995 declassification of the “Venona Project”. Hollywood socialists/communists and their ilk spent much time and effort telling the Big Lie about Sen. Joseph P. McCarthy’s “persecution” of them. Nevermind that was the province of HUAC in the House of Representatives. McCarthy’s efforts were against Soviet communist spies and infiltrators in the government. Venona, which was intercepting and decoding communications between the Soviet government and their agents in the USA, proved that not only was McCarthy right, the problem was worse than he knew. Since 1995, the anti-McCarthy vitriol has pretty much died out to just the diehards who’ll never believe the truth. That’s evidenced by how badly George Clooney’s movie “Goodnight and good luck.” bombed at the box office. The majority have rejected the Big Lie.
Compare to “climategate”. The documents show that not only have the AGW skeptics been right all along, the rot was worse than they suspected. The Web is helping tremendously to spread the truth and bypass the media and politicians who’re denying the truth and still trying to keep the Big Lie alive. Hopefully unlike the slow and gentle loss of steam of the McCarthy bashers, “climategate” will end AGW with a big bang rather than a whimper.
Well, Pamela, I think I’m about 5 hours away from you so in some sense a neighbor on this site but still too far to drop by and partake of the popcorn and brew I’m sure you have been enjoying since your remark was posted. I wonder whether you had the popcorn popped before you posted or did it after the first reply by ‘old salt’? Here’s to ya!
Pamela Gray: I am grateful you are happy with Republicans, even though you and I might disagree on other issues. Particularly in this instance. We need more folks like you and Jerry in Boston to help restore sanity to science and politics. And Jerry in Boston, you’re not “tilting at windmills.” No one who exercises the freedom of the vote ever does that. Some folks in California need to do that with Barbara Boxer, because she’s full of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_Reuters
According to this Reuters is a publicly traded company with 53% controlling interest owned by the Thompson family of Canada.
Obama said carbon was polluting the waters we drink and the air we breathe.
Boxer said yesterday that challenging the EPA finding of CO2 is a pollutant was a:
“unprecedented move to overturn a health finding by health experts and scientific experts in order to stand with the special interests” that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.
If we banned carbon dioxide, the pollutant of which they speak, life on earth would cease.
Living a human life will now be a pollutant to the planet and subject to regulation.
Since we pay for your health care, we get to play insurance company. We get to further regulate your life.
You must know, it isn’t about you anymore. It is now about us, and we get to vote.
there’s more:
Dems Join Effort to Block Global Warming Rules
Sending message to Obama, Democrats join effort to block regulation of heat-trapping gases
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9624894
@Pamela Gray
“PS, yes, I am looking for that center fold copy.”
Here you go, enjoy!
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/09/15/gop-senator-s-racy-pics-don-t-matter-because-he-s-a-dude.aspx