Now there is the likelihood that health reform, like the climate-change bill, will be deferred until the autumn, when fears about the deficit will have grown and the two expensive bills could combine to spook voters.
Over 40 of them broke ranks in the House over the climate-change bill.
The Waxman-Markey climate change bill that just passed the U.S. House of Representatives wants to force developing countries to accept this fate by resorting to the old and tired method of protectionism.
And B, does the President need, does the administration need Senate passage of a climate change bill to seek a deal within the confines of the U.N. climate change talks?
On Tuesday the government will launch its Climate Change Bill, which puts the government's long-term goal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60% by 2050 into statute.
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Critics of the Obama Administration have accused the president of abandoning climate change after the cap and trade bill he supported stalled in the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate.
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Opposition parties also largely welcomed the bill, but Scottish Labour's climate change spokesman Des McNulty said his party would be scrutinising the bill to ensure its words would be matched with action.
But the administration opposes mandatory emissions targets, and there is probably not enough time to get a meaningful climate change bill to the president's desk by the end of the year.
The energy and climate change select committee has been examining the draft energy bill, which will establish this framework, and many witnesses have warned that the proposals will in fact raise the cost of capital, hamper competition and deter investment.
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Some observers guessed that he was trying to smooth the way for a climate-change bill by offering Republicans a present.
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Anyone who follows the story of climate change is probably familiar with the work of three journalists: Bill McKibben, Tom Friedman and Andrew Revkin.
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So hot, you might say that the House is creating a special new committee to highlight the problem and senators are introducing one climate change bill after another.
Can he get the Senate to pass a slimmed-down climate change bill so he can work in a conference committee to get more of his energy priorities done?
In late June, he met with a bipartisan group of senators at the White House to discuss passing an energy and climate change bill this year.
In late June, a White House-backed climate change bill passed 219-212 in the House, with virtually no Republican support.
For better or worse, the net neutrality fight may give strong indications of how upcoming fights over the health care bill, financial regulation, debt management, climate change and other key issues will be scripted.
All this makes it highly unlikely, by the way, that there will be any progress on a climate-change bill in time for December's global meeting in Copenhagen.
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Which is perhaps why Mrs Lincoln, though no climate-change denier, is less than thrilled by the Waxman-Markey bill.
His proposed climate-change bill, whose chances of becoming law before the mid-terms look slim, would be much improved if boondoggles were removed from it.
"We're challenging Waxman-Markey's cap-and-trade bill, not the need for a legislative response to climate change, " says Karen Harbert, head of the Chamber's Institute for 21st Century Energy.
At this year's annual meeting, former President Bill Clinton emphasized the power of transparency and data collection in mobilizing the fight against climate change.
The proposed bill would prohibit future U.S. funding for the alarmist Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and also for the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a scam devoted to redistributing American wealth in penance for our unfair capitalist free market prosperity.
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Lawrence said that with environmental and national security advocates joining forces on climate change, there's a "shot at a coalition" to get a bill through the Senate.
To distance himself from such policies when running for the Senate in 2010, Mr Manchin produced an ad in which he took a rifle to a proposed climate-change bill.
This bill assesses how growth and climate change will affect our access to water resources, especially in the West and Southwest, and it includes solutions to complex and long-simmering water disputes.
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