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Partisan Acrimony Is Stalling Cap-and-Trade in the Senate
Tweet Share on Facebook July 20, 2010 Comment (12)My colleague David W. Conover at the Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center was the Republican staff director at the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, or EPW, from 1999 to 2003. His experience on the committee is a revealing window into the shifting environmental politics of the U.S. Congress and the country.
Cap-and-Trade, as the leading environmental legislation of 2010 is known, has been stymied in the Senate, and the environment committee has now become a hothouse of partisan acrimony. The ranking Republican, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, is actively supporting committee Chair Barbara Boxer's opponent--Carly Fiorina--in California’s Senate campaign.
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Bob Bennett’s Defeat Shows Extremism in Politics
Tweet Share on Facebook July 8, 2010 Comment (22)Sen. Bob Bennett is an impressive politician. As a PBS NewsHour segment last night showed, he is a serious, thoughtful official, who believes in the virtue of holding sober debates about idea-driven policies. He had the temerity to shun the politics of angry diatribes that too often passes for mainstream political debate now--and he was defeated as a result. [See who gave the most to Bennett's campaign.]
