Inhofe (R-Dark Ages) Working On Bill To Block GHG Regs Under Any Existing Laws -NYT

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Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who famously called climate change the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," will unveil a bill with House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) that would strip EPA of its authority to limit carbon emissions from power plants, refineries and other stationary sources.

At the same time, he will be a "first co-sponsor" of a much broader bill that would bar the federal government from regulating greenhouse gas emissions under any existing environmental law. That measure will be introduced Monday by Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who serves on the Environment and Public Works Committee, on which Inhofe is the ranking Republican. I think you'll find the Republicans are pretty lock step in this," Inhofe told E&E yesterday. "So we're supporting both. support me, I'm supporting him."

Inhofe and his staff consulted on both the bicameral bill with Upton and on the Barrasso effort, said Inhofe spokesman Matt Dempsey. "He's got a level of expertise on this that he wants to work with both members on," said Dempsey. "He's helping develop both bills, he and his staff."

Barrasso spokeswoman Emily Lawrimore noted that the base for her boss' bill was a measure introduced last Congress by former Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio), but added, "As a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Barrasso and his staff work closely with Senator Inhofe and his committee staff." Dempsey said the bill his boss crafted with Upton is more limited in scope not because Inhofe does not support more widespread pre-emption of federal authority but because the House committee Upton leads does not have jurisdiction over the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and several other laws that Barrasso's bill would affect.

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http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2011/01/28/28climatewire-sen-inhofe-shapes-major-gop-bills-to-fight-e-51835.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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2. He's an idiot

Only person who doesn't know it is jimmy boy himself

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3. In others news ...

... Sen. Inhofe has proposed a new cabinet position--Department of the Flat Earth.