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How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) [UPDATED] 2
Posted 1 day, 5 hours 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 1 day, 6 hours 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 2 days, 7 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.
More clunker debunkers

Cash for Clunkers brought us ... more clunkers! 11
Posted 2 days, 8 hours ago So how did Cash for Clunkers work out from an environmental standpoint? Don't ask. The most common deals swapped old pickup trucks for new pickup trucks that got only marginally better gas mileage.
How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Jon Tester (D-Mont.) 1
Posted 3 days, 11 hours 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 4 days, 4 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.
That sucking sound you hear ...

The real reason the climate bill is going to suck 29
Posted 5 days, 9 hours ago All the finger-pointing and recrimination aside, there's a pretty simple reason why whatever clean energy legislation the U.S. Congress produces is going to be weak.
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.
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.
It begins...

The big stories out of Tuesday’s Senate hearing on Kerry-Boxer 3
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago Tuesday's hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee -- the first of three days of hearings on the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill -- didn't contain any big surprises. As Keith Johnson notes, Senators generally played their appointed roles. There are four stories out of today that seem notable.
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, 5 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.
One step forward, several back

The Kerry-Boxer bill is not “more ambitious” than Waxman-Markey 2
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago I'm sure Steve Mufson and Juliet Eilperin didn't choose the headline, but whoever did, I think it's a real mistake to refer to the Kerry-Boxer bill as "a bit more ambitious" than its Waxman-Markey counterpart in the House. This became conventional wisdom almost immediately, but it seems to me both wrong and pernicious -- the more Kerry-Boxer is seen as a leftward move from the House bill, the more senators who want to be seen as moderate will want to be seen hacking it down.
Still affordable

Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill: Chairman’s mark and EPA analysis released 5
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago At close to 11 p.m. EST, Boxer's office has finally released the chairman's mark of the Kerry-Boxer bill. This is the version of the bill that will be debated in hearings this week. Concurrently, the EPA has released its analysis of the economic impacts of the bill. These are both crucial documents that will see a lot of discussion in coming weeks. Here's just a few cursory notes.
How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) 0
Posted 2 weeks, 3 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, 2 days 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.