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House will pass climate change legislation by 2009: Pelosi



21 April 2009 @ 06:27 pm ET

White House speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday she was committed to pass climate change legislation this year.

Pelosi spoke today at a press conference before the first of four days hearings conducted by the House Energy and Commerce Committee to discuss the energy bill known as The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 authored by Congressmen Henry Waxman and Edward Markey.

"We will pass legislation this year," Pelosi told reporters referring to the climate legislation.

The draft of the legislation - which for the first time puts a cap on carbon dioxide that is emitted from power plants and factories in the U.S. - is seen as the most meaningful energy legislation in decades.

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Jun 7, 2009 3:08pm

Global Warming legislation just came out of committee. World oil production is now in permanent decline. What oil is left will provide us the only bridge we’ll have to what comes next. I am asking myself, "Why is the Democratic Party making this a TOLL bridge with the passage of this new tax legislation?" The move to change legislative language from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change" confirms Congress's acknowledgement that the planet is now cooling and that the decline in solar activity is responsible for the "Global Cooling" we’re now feeling.

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