Senate rejects global warming cap

[dArKeR]

In the Senate’s first vote in more than six years on the controversial issue of climate change, lawmakers on Thursday rejected a plan to curb carbon dioxide emissions from industrial smokestacks.

THE 55-43 vote against the measure capped a two-day debate that Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., described as the opening shot in what they acknowledged will be a lengthy effort to get Congress to address global warming.
Their bill would have required industrial plants — but not motor vehicles — to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to 2000 levels by 2010. The Bush administration said the bill would seriously harm the economy.
“Let’s get real here: This is a very minimal proposal that should be a first step,” McCain told the Senate, showing pictures of Arctic Sea ice loss and melting at Glacier National Park. “But we have to start somewhere.

http://msnbc.com/news/986933.asp?0cv=CB10

[HFishbine]

1. I Wonder

how Kerry and Edwards voted.

[gristy]

2. Here's who voted for it.

Includes Republicans Snowe, Chafee, Gregg, Lugar, and McCain. Edwards did not vote. See link

Akaka (D-HI)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Collins (R-ME)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Daschle (D-SD)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Graham (D-FL)
Gregg (R-NH)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hollings (D-SC)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCain (R-AZ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Snowe (R-ME)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wyden (D-OR)

[PurityOfEssence]

3. Edwards is a Co-sponsor of the bill; he may still be in California

He was in Los Angeles for a fundraiser last night; I don't know what happened after that. There has been some disruption of air travel (Ashton Kutcher wasn't even able to get in for the fundraiser he was hosting) but this is pure speculation on my part.

Edwards is listed as one of the 14 co-sponsors of the bill and has a great environmental record.

I'm sure the usual Edwards-haters will form up shortly to chirp about this further proof of his crypto-toadyism and set me straight...

[leesa]

4. Everything Bush does harms the economy...what he meant was

curbing emissions will curb his corporate cash intake. Wide-open bribery and our illustrious 'good christian' congress says nary a word!