GOP-led House plans to fight Obama pollution plan

[TomCADem]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON – The incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is promising a fight over the Obama administration's new approach on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

Congress failed last year to pass limits and let companies buy and sell pollution permits. That system was known as "cap and trade" — but to Republicans it was "cap and tax" because they said it would raise energy prices.

The administration now say it'll act on its own to clamp down on power plant and oil refinery greenhouse emissions by developing new standards over the next year.

But Michigan Rep. Fred Upton tells "Fox News Sunday" that the GOP-led House won't "let this administration regulate what they've been unable to legislate." He says Republicans want to tackle the problem "in a reasonable way."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110102/ap_on_bi_ge/us_house_greenhouse_gases_2

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I guess Republicans are using their 2010 electoral mandate to demand a rolling back of environmental laws.

[Drale]

1. Its time to mandate that mansions can only be built

next to high polution sources, let the rich deal with the evils they create.

[Champion Jack]

2. Who gives a shit what some fuckhead republican says on fox news?

[fascisthunter]

3. The GOP is just a Rottenly Corrupt Bunch of Greed Driven Sociopaths

everything decent they are opposed to... if anything helps people or the environment people live and rely upon, they are against. Sick!

[classof56]

4. Well said. I'm gonna quote you on that!

Lately I've begun to run out of invectives that express my disdain for the GOP. You have helped.

Peace and blessings.

[muntrv]

5. Hey Fred! Eat tarballs and die!

[TomCADem]

6. GOP agenda: Major impact may be on 2012 election

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON – The Republican agenda for the new Congress that convenes Wednesday may have a greater impact on the 2012 elections than on the lives of Americans in the next two years.

Republicans promise to cut spending, roll back President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and prevent unelected bureaucrats from expanding the government's role in society through regulations that tell people what they must or can't do. Getting this agenda through the House may be easier than in the Senate, given the GOP's 241-194 majority in the House. Getting the Senate to act will be a challenge. Democrats still hold an edge there, though smaller than the one Obama had during his first two years in the White House.

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The next chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Republican Fred Upton of Michigan, says he'll work to stop over-zealous government regulators. A big target for him is the Environmental Protection Agency, which is writing rules to limit greenhouse gases blamed for global warming after Obama's effort to get Congress to do it stalled in the Senate last year.

"We are not going to let this administration regulate what they've been unable to legislate," he told Fox.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_congress_returns;_ylt=AmpnVqDwvximvcBNiesUNVJH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTMxajllY2hkBGFzc2V0Ay9zL2FwL3VzX2NvbmdyZXNzX3JldHVybnMEY2NvZGUDbXBfZWNfOF8xMARjcG9zAzEEcG9zAzEEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawNnb3BhZ2VuZGFtYWo-

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There you have it. The people have spoken in the 2010 elections. Republicans will be demanding that the EPA immediately halt its enforcement of environmental laws or else!

[Drale]

7. I'm really starting to think the only way to stop the madness

is to not let anyone on the right wing into a leadership position. I would have never said that before, but this is getting really ridiculous.

[Phlem]

9. I was where your at a long time ago.

Now I just want them exterminated, they're worse than pest and will be the undoing of us all.

-p

[BlueJazz]

8. Rats...I hate to hear republicans make promises ......seems like the Working class always gets ..

...a 2x4 stuck up their ass.

[WingDinger]

10. We may witness the Death of the GOP. No, I am not kidding.

They are building their rhetoric up, till it passes right into ludicrous. The public will disdain their crybaby obstructionist, do nothing but complain good for nothing wastes of taxpayer dollars. And Soon.

[AndyTiedye]

12. Not As Long as the Repigs Own All the TV Stations They Won't

[bemildred]

11. Oh heck, they are going to discredit themselves some more. nt

[SpartanDem]

13. More GOP hot air

whatever they try to pass will never get past the Senate