Thread: Cap and Trade Gets Big Pushback in Senate

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Cap and trade gets big pushback in Senate
posted at 12:55 pm on April 3, 2009
by Ed Morrissey

Barack Obama suffered a major defeat in his quest to impose a cap-and-trade system on the US energy sector last night, as the Senate formally rejected any attempt to pass such a scheme through budget reconciliation rules. In fact, two-thirds of the Senate voted against such a move, with 26 Democrats crossing the aisle to protect the filibuster for cap-and-trade legislation (via The Corner):

Please pass Al Gore a Valium — and better make it a double — because his cap-and-trade dreams just took a dive in the U.S. Senate. In a vote late Wednesday, no fewer than 26 Democrats joined all 41 Republicans to insist that any new cap and tax on carbon energy would require at least 60 votes.

Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander called it “the biggest vote of the yearâ€

We will have to keep a close eye on this bit of trash legislation, the American people are too smart to fall for the Global Warming scam, so the Gov't will probably put this into some other legislation ( like they did with Universal health) and enact it into law. Afterall, Gore and the other elites stand to make tons of money off of the cap and trade scam, tax.