Democratic leaders are scrambling to prevent the Senate from delivering a stinging slap to President Barack Obama on climate change.
*note from Vanversive* Five bucks the administration uses this whole BP Gulf oil gusher to try and push more cap and tax legislation. Since Copenhagen went up in flames they hopped to use the EPA to regulate carbon emissions at the local level. Seems this legislation that Obama seeks to veto in this article could be a double edge sword for him.
Democratic leaders are scrambling to prevent the Senate from delivering a stinging slap to President Barack Obama on climate change.
They have offered a vote on a bill they dislike in the hopes of avoiding a loss on legislation Obama hates.
The president is threatening to veto a resolution from Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) that would ban the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating carbon emissions.
But if the president were forced to use his veto to prevent legislation emerging from a Congress in which his own party enjoys substantial majorities, it would be a humiliation for him and for Democrats on Capitol Hill.