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How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) [UPDATED] 2
Posted 18 hours, 10 minutes ago Sen. Arlen Specter had been considered a fence sitter on climate legislation, but on Nov. 5 he sided with all but one of the Democrats on the Environment and Public Works Committee in voting to move forward with the Kerry-Boxer climate bill.
How will senators vote on a climate bill?

Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) 0
Posted 19 hours, 45 minutes ago Sen. Dianne Feinstein is expected to vote in favor of the Kerry-Boxer climate bill. In a letter to a Grist reader, she doesn't explicitly endorse the bill, but she does say it "represents an important step."
How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) 0
Posted 1 day, 20 hours ago Sen. Kay Hagan is not a shoo-in on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill, but she appears to be leaning toward supporting it.
How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Jon Tester (D-Mont.) 1
Posted 3 days ago The junior senator from Montana, Jon Tester has stayed relatively quiet on climate legislation and thus remains in the “fence-sitter” category.
How will senators vote on a climate bill?

Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) 0
Posted 3 days, 17 hours ago "I'm trying to work with the group in the middle," says Sen. Joe Lieberman, describing his role in brokering a climate agreement. He's pushing particularly hard for more support for nuclear power in a climate bill.
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German leader likens the struggle against global warming to the Berlin Wall 1
Posted 4 days ago German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday urged the U.S. Congress to take action on climate change.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) [UPDATED] 2
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago Sen. Ben Nelson doesn't believe a cap-and-trade climate bill can pass Congress this session, he said on Oct. 30 -- and he doesn't intend to do anything to help it.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) 0
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago Sen. Michael Bennet calls the House climate bill "a significant step in the right direction," and he sounds generally positive about the Kerry-Boxer climate bill that's now being considered in the Senate.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Mark Udall (D-Colo.) 1
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago Sen. Mark Udall is considered a likely "yes" vote for a climate bill in the Senate, though he wants to see more support for nuclear power and natural gas.
the roadmap is paved with gold

A solar energy future: Maybe you can get there from here 2
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Solar Technology Roadmap Act has drawn enthusiastic support from the business community and the U.S. House of Representatives. Now, can it lure reluctant Senators to support the Kerry-Boxer bill?
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) [UPDATED] 2
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago Sen. Robert Byrd hated the climate bill that passed the House in June, but he seems a little more open to the Kerry-Boxer bill being considered in the Senate.
How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

George LeMieux (R-Fla.) 0
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago New Sen. George LeMieux has yet to vote on any key legislation that might give us clues as to whether he would support the Kerry-Boxer climate bill. He said after his appointment that he would want to study specific climate legislation before coming down on one side or the other, while also stressing that the nation needs to "move toward renewable energy,” which he said includes nuclear power.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) [UPDATED] 3
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago Sen. Evan Bayh is widely considered to be a fence-sitter on climate legislation. Read this letter he sent to a constituent in early October.
Senate digs into climate bill at hearings this week 0
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago This week, the Senate is finally starting to talk seriously about the climate bill that Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) introduced on Sept. 30. Starting on Tuesday, the Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Boxer, is holding three days of hearings on the bill, with a wonk-studded cast of witnesses.
Five scoops of compromise

Sampling the competing flavors of the Senate climate debate 0
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago Senators of all stripes are screaming for some kind of climate and energy bill, but like schoolkids at the ice cream parlor, each is crying out for a different flavor.
Supply and demand

Kerry-Boxer muddies handling of international offsets 0
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago The Kerry-Boxer climate bill's treatment of international carbon offsets should be modified to align it with the Waxman-Markey approach. Otherwise, U.S. policy could have a ripple effect that would weaken international carbon trading schemes.
How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) 0
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago Sen. Lindsey Graham has stepped up to become the leading Republican advocate of a bipartisan climate bill, joining with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to put forward a framework for climate legislation that they say can actually pass the Senate.
How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) [UPDATED] 3
Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago Sen. Lisa Murkowski is open to voting for a cap-and-trade climate bill if it would aggressively boost nuclear power and domestic oil and gas drilling, she said in a C-SPAN interview. "Count me as one of those who will keep my mind open as we move forward," she said.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) [UPDATED] 2
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago In a letter to a Grist reader, Sen. Chuck Grassley dodges and weaves about climate science, says schemes to reduce greenhouse-gas emission amount to "a national energy tax," and calls for more renewable energy.
Obama talks climate change 0
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago