House Of Representatives

The Waxman Report, part one

Henry Waxman’s decade-long fight to improve the Clean Air Act 7
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Rep. Henry Waxman is the chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee and coauthor of the ACES bill passed by the House in June. Naturally, political observers are curious about his thoughts on the fight to pass climate/energy legislation this year, but in media interviews he tends to be careful, measured, and fairly abstract. He doesn't do his work in public.

It turns out, however, that Waxman has offered a fairly clear guide to his thinking, and even told us where to find it: it's in chapter five of his new book, The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works.
Compromises, what compromises?

The new Senate global warming deniers 2
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
In the aftermath of the House vote, right-leaning Senate Dems and right-wing Republicans acted as if Reps. Henry Waxman and Ed Markey hadn't spent the last three months painstakingly piecing a compromise with Dems sympathetic to coal companies, power companies, and agribusiness. These Senators are the new global warming deniers: Not denying the climate crisis is happening, but denying the climate bill compromises that just happened.
Southern boy don't need them around anyhow

Are the South and the Midwest splitting on energy? 2
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
What you see in the Waxman-Markey House vote is the beginning of a dynamic I expect to accelerate in coming years: the divergence of the South (specifically coal-mining Appalachia) and the Midwest on energy politics.
Dems the breaks

Analysis of Waxman-Markey vote from around the web 3
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
What does Friday's close Waxman-Markey vote in the House tell us? Here are some thoughts from around the interwebs.
ACES high

Washington Republican helps swing climate bill vote 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The American Clean Energy and Security Act narrowly passed in the House late Friday thanks to eight bold Republicans who hopped the fence. One of them is Washington state's very own Dave Reichert.
The clean energy economy transformation might just be a go!

The U.S. House of Representatives approves landmark (bipartisan!) climate bill, 219 - 212. 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
ACES wild!

House Dems release 1,201-page climate bill with floor debate scheduled for Friday 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Not on the list: their stunningly adorable family pictures

The top 10 ways the House GOP are like my two-year-old daughter 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
get out the vote

How did your rep vote on the House climate and energy bill? 8
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Most Democrats voted for the Waxman-Markey bill -- 211 in all -- but 44 Dems voted against. Almost all Republicans opposed the bill -- 168 -- but eight Republicans broke ranks to support the measure. Which side was your rep on?
The Con is On

The GOP’s Spanish prisoner/professor 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
In prepping for today's House debate on Waxman-Markey, I watched David Mamet's mindbender, The Spanish Prisoner. The movie takes its title from a venerable long-con so complicated that -- I don't care how many times you've seen the film -- 20 minutes in and you'll have no idea who's zoomin' who. It's the perfect choice, because opponents of the climate bill have their very own Spaniard. And, just as in the film, this guy is no prisoner. He's part of the con.
Waxman-Markey: We’d better try to get what we need 3
Posted 5 months ago
Once again Mick Jagger is right: “You can't always get what you want/But if you try sometimes you just might find/You get what you need.”

The House of Representatives is poised for its first-ever floor debate and series of votes on a landmark measure to reduce global warming pollution. This bill is revolutionary in its intent and, while imperfect in its means, it deserves the support of progressives.
Please don't be famous last words

“We’ll get the votes”: One more day to finish talks with farm state Dems 0
Posted 5 months ago
Hechler to Obama: Time for Truman Moment in the Coalfields

94-year-old former U.S. Representative calls for end to mountaintop removal 3
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
As protestors from around the country converged in the Coal River Valley in West Virginia to protest Massey Energy's reckless mountaintop-removal blasting operations, their ranks included 94-year-old former US Representative Ken Hechler. Hechler has a message for President Barack Obama: It's time to have a Harry S. Truman moment and issue an executive order to abolish the destructive practice of mountaintop-removal mining in Appalachia.
Climate politics scoop and question of the week 2
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Okay, I don’t know if it is a scoop, heck, I don’t know for certain it is true, but a very reliable source tells me that Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants the climate bill on the House floor the last week in June.
The Climate Post: The House at the center of the world 0
Posted 6 months ago
Lately, every week is the most consequential in the history of climate change. This week was no exception.
Contempt of Congress 0
Posted 6 months ago
House GOP reveals its disdain for clean energy, livable climate with 450 planned amendments to Waxman-Markey and a more-of-the-same rehash of Cheney energy plan.
Joe Barton is dumber than you thought possible

Top Republican on House energy committee: “when it’s hot we get in the shade” 1
Posted 8 months ago
Blue dogs, old tricks 2
Posted 9 months ago
What are the prospects for climate legislation in the House? 2
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
The players: House and Senate 3
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago