Senate Republicans block a global warming bill
Vote on climate bill is blocked in Senate. By H. Josef Hebert. Associated Press Writer.
The next Congress will look a lot different.
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U.S. Senate Abandons Global Warming Bill. By J.R. Pegg. Environmental News Service
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Republicans thwart McCain ‘greenwash’. By Leonard Doyle. The Independent (U.K)
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What Will the Next President Do About Climate Change? By Mark Hertsgaard. The Nation (on the left)
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A Qualified “Yes” to Cap-and-Trade. By William Tucker. The American Spectator (here a right-winger deviates from the party line to a degree).

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Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University with specialties in natural resource politics, public opinion, interest groups, political parties, voting and elections. Aside from academic publications, he is author or co-author of three hiking/backpacking guides, and he is past President of the Western Watersheds Project.
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The Republicans are not the only blame for this bill being removed for consideration.
Six Democrats flat out voted against it and there were another 10 that voted to move the bill forward, but they said they would not support the final bill if it looked like the one that was on the Senate floor yesterday.
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=b3685513-6c10-4ad7-b3ba-da04fe48e52e
make your own conclusions
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25970864/