Representative Waxman did a superb job of keeping it moving and introducing his speakers. Particularly eloquent and excellent arguing for the bill were Baldwin of Wisconsin, John Larson, Connecticut, Matsui, California, Eshoo, California, Brale, Iowa, Doyle, Pennsylvania, Degette, Colorado and Jay Inslee of Washington.

Did anyone watching the debate wonder why no one mentioned the following:

1. Scientific data, such as the fact that CO2 emissions are increasing at 2 parts per million per year now and are now higher than any time in the past million years, or the recent MIT predictions of temperature rise of 4.5 to 9 o F by 2100

2. the specific economic cost of allowing greenhouse gas emissions to continue to rise  

3. that the average US citizen is responsible for about 20  tons of CO2 emissions while The average citizen of China only causes  5 tons of emissions,

I am also curious as to why CSpan covered  Republican diatribes and ramblings against the climate bill from about 3 PM to 8 PM Pacific time. After the debate. I must have missed the vote, and  kept turning the Cspan on periodically , and here were these long winded sustainability obstructionists.

It would have been nice to hear instead testimony of Alaska natives losing their homes, victims of forest fires or hurricanes, or shellfish fishermen on the Pacific coast in danger of losing their livelihood to acidic oceans.

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