Earlier this week we learned of an bill introduced by Senator John Barrasso that finally brought a caucus of oil industry-supported legislators in the Senate to the point of acknowledging that a certain class of chemicals released by industry act as greenhouse gases and have a warming effect upon the climate. This remarkable bill, S. [...]
An informally assembled anti-wolf caucus in Congress is working to allow gray wolves in the United States to be hunted to the point of extinction.
Now that even James Inhofe admits that global warming is a real threat, Congress needs to pass legislation quickly to confront the danger.
39 members of the United States Senate chose to stand with Lisa Murkowski, in opposition to responsible efforts to slow climate change. These senators, chose to align themselves with the short-term corporate profits on the very day when NASA’s Goddard Institute reported that the last decade has been the warmest on record.
The Democratic Party is now presiding over the short changing of health care reform and climate legislation while expanding the military budget just as the Republicans did under George W. Bush. Will progressives pretend not to notice, or will the finally withdraw their support for the Democratic Party leaders who have strung them along?
The legislation introduced by John Barrasso and David Vitter actually forbids the Secretary of the Interior from taking scientific observations into account, for no other reason than that Barrasso and Vitter regard the consequences of those observations to be inconvenient.
The following are the United States Senators who voted for this betrayal of the Constitution. 20 of these 69 senators are Democrats. Without the Democrats helping out, the Republicans couldn’t have gotten the FISA Amendments Act passed. Which ones are the Republicans, and which ones are the Democrats? You figure it out. I can’t tell the difference.
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