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How will senators vote on a climate bill?

Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) 1
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days 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 3 weeks, 4 days ago Sen. Kay Hagan is not a shoo-in on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill, but she appears to be leaning toward supporting it.
A Grist special series

Tracking where senators stand on climate legislation 0
Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Will there be 60 “yes” votes for a climate bill in the Senate, enough to overcome a filibuster? In a special series, we take a look at where senators stand.
Lindsey Graham rebukes fellow Republicans: ‘The green economy is coming’ 1
Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago While other Senate Republicans led by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) boycott action on the climate crisis, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has chosen a leadership role.
How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Jon Tester (D-Mont.) 1
Posted 3 weeks, 5 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 weeks, 6 days 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.
Senate GOP embrace Inhofe’s boycott of Clean Energy Jobs Act in effort to thwart Copenhagen 0
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago
Graham and Kerry are in talks with White House “to discuss a possible compromise.” 0
Posted 4 weeks ago Washington Post gets climate bill politics story backwards and buries the big news.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) [UPDATED] 2
Posted 1 month 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 month 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 month 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.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) [UPDATED] 2
Posted 1 month 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 month 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.
Sen. Alexander unaware of staggering cost of nuclear power

Sen. Kerry downplays prospect of floor debate this year 0
Posted 1 month ago
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) [UPDATED] 2
Posted 1 month 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 month 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.
The write stuff

As senators get to work on climate, find out where they stand 0
Posted 1 month ago Write to your senators to find out where they stand on the climate bill sponsored by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). As hearings on the bill get started, it's time to up the pressure.
Five scoops of compromise

Sampling the competing flavors of the Senate climate debate 0
Posted 1 month 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 month 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.
“Human activities are the primary driver,” impacts are projected to worsen “substantially” and “If we are to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change, emissions of greenhouse gases must be dramatically reduced.”

18 leading scientific organizations send letter to Senators 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago