Hill Heat: Senate Watch, Targets and Allocations: Bond, Byrd, Carper, Casey, Dorgan, Graham, Inhofe, Murkowski, Rockefeller, Specter, Vitter, VoinovichScience Policy Legislation Actiontag:www.hillheat.com,2005:TypoTypo2009-10-30T06:36:06-04:00Brad Johnsonurn:uuid:d8d37c95-5078-46c6-9e38-4970f743211a2009-10-30T05:59:00-04:002009-10-30T06:36:06-04:00Senate Watch, Targets and Allocations: Bond, Byrd, Carper, Casey, Dorgan, Graham, Inhofe, Murkowski, Rockefeller, Specter, Vitter, Voinovich<strong>Kit Bond (R-MO)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/print/2009/10/29/1">E&E News</a> It’s a smaller pie. People want to know what’s going on. We’re still trying to figure out how these complicated, cockamamie schemes are going to work. Anything that’s that complicated is by definition highly suspect and the more I hear, the more I suspect.</p>
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<strong>Robert Byrd (D-WV)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE59Q0JY20091028">Reuters</a> Byrd praised Boxer’s additions in the bill that put more focus on clean coal technology. But he warned, “I will actively oppose any bill that would harm the workers, families, industries, or our esource-based economy in West Virginia.”</p>
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<strong>Tom Carper (D-DE)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/print/2009/10/29/6">E&E News</a> Carper said he would pursue his measure to cut power plants’ emissions of soot, mercury, SOx and NOxas stand-alone legislation if it does not make it into the bill. “One way or another,” he said.</p>
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<strong>Robert Casey (D-PA)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28869_Page2.html">Politico</a> The target’s certainly a change from where the House was, and that’s going to be a subject of debate.</p>
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<strong>Byron Dorgan (D-ND)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28869_Page2.html">Politico</a> We’ll see what they put together in <span class="caps">EPW</span>, but I think it’s going to be very hard for them to pass legislation unless they have substantial discussions with moderate senators and address their concerns.</p>
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<strong>Lindsey Graham (R-SC)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/65227-graham-floats-climate-compromise-tying-in-offshore-drilling">The Hill</a> This administration is not going to allow offshore drilling for oil and gas unless it’s part of some bigger deal. I don’t think you’ll ever have offshore drilling for oil and gas until you marry it up with emissions controls. They don’t have 60 votes for environmental policy in the House and the Senate because it’s bad for business. All of these bills, I couldn’t support because they’re cap and trade legislation that really does put us at a competitive disadvantage.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/print/2009/10/29/1">E&E News</a> It’s a smaller pie. People want to know what’s going on. We’re still trying to figure out how these complicated, cockamamie schemes are going to work. Anything that’s that complicated is by definition highly suspect and the more I hear, the more I suspect.</p>
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<strong>Robert Byrd (D-WV)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE59Q0JY20091028">Reuters</a> Byrd praised Boxer’s additions in the bill that put more focus on clean coal technology. But he warned, “I will actively oppose any bill that would harm the workers, families, industries, or our esource-based economy in West Virginia.”</p>
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<strong>Tom Carper (D-DE)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/print/2009/10/29/6">E&E News</a> Carper said he would pursue his measure to cut power plants’ emissions of soot, mercury, SOx and NOxas stand-alone legislation if it does not make it into the bill. “One way or another,” he said.</p>
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<strong>Robert Casey (D-PA)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28869_Page2.html">Politico</a> The target’s certainly a change from where the House was, and that’s going to be a subject of debate.</p>
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<strong>Byron Dorgan (D-ND)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28869_Page2.html">Politico</a> We’ll see what they put together in <span class="caps">EPW</span>, but I think it’s going to be very hard for them to pass legislation unless they have substantial discussions with moderate senators and address their concerns.</p>
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<strong>Lindsey Graham (R-SC)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/65227-graham-floats-climate-compromise-tying-in-offshore-drilling">The Hill</a> This administration is not going to allow offshore drilling for oil and gas unless it’s part of some bigger deal. I don’t think you’ll ever have offshore drilling for oil and gas until you marry it up with emissions controls. They don’t have 60 votes for environmental policy in the House and the Senate because it’s bad for business. All of these bills, I couldn’t support because they’re cap and trade legislation that really does put us at a competitive disadvantage.</p>
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<strong>James Inhofe (R-OK)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/27/AR2009102702845.html?hpid=topnews">Washington Post</a> Science is not settled! Everyone knows it’s not settled!</p>
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<strong>Lisa Murkowski (D-AK)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/print/2009/10/29/1">E&E News</a> An exercise akin to doling out pieces of a pie. But as climate legislation is developed in the Senate, we’re faced with a hard reality. There aren’t enough pieces left to satisfy the groups vying for them to repeat this process a second time.</p>
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<strong>Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE59Q0JY20091028">Reuters</a> An aide to West Virginia Democratic Senator John Rockefeller said the tougher emissions goal is unrealistic and harmful as there is not enough time to deploy the carbon capture and storage and energy efficiency technologies.</p>
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<strong>Arlen Specter (D-PA)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28810.html">Politico</a> <a href="http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/economic_concerns_continue_to_shape_climate_calculus/C37/L37/">New West Politics</a> “There is a great deal to be gained by certainty so people can make plans. If the <span class="caps">EPA</span> continues to have flexibility we don’t know where we are. . . . That’s really our job.</p>
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<strong>David Vitter (R-LA)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/28/guest-blogger-senator-david-vitter-r-la-on-cap-and-trade/#at">Heritage</a> This legislation represents a new tax in the order of more than $1,700 per American household annually, and, if it’s passed, American families can expect to see considerable increases in the cost of electricity, gas, food and utilities. It is clear that most Americans families’ standard of living will be reduced if this cap-and-trade bill is approved by Congress.</p>
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<p>The greatest opportunity for investment in new technologies is revenue generated from increased domestic energy production. Recent analysis suggests that increased domestic resource production could generate $8 trillion in <span class="caps">GDP</span>, $2.2 trillion in incremental tax receipts and perhaps two million jobs or more – all without borrowing a dime or increasing taxes even a penny.</p>
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<strong>George Voinovich (R-OH)</strong>
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<p><a href="http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200910291118dowjonesdjonline000808&title=senate-panel-climate-hearings-proceed-in-face-of-new-attacks"><span class="caps">NASDAQ</span></a> California is going to make out like a bandit with this legislation. To jam this thing through here is not going to be good and America is going to be very, very upset about it.</p>
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