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| Breaking News: June 3 , 2008 | |
Alert: Boxer Claims Recession is Best Time to Raise Energy Costs | |
| Excerpt: Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), the chairman of the Environment & Public Works Committee, declared in her opening floor speech today that a "recession is the precise time to" enact the Lieberman-Warner global warming cap-and-trade bill because it "brings us hope." The Lieberman-Warner global warming bill would have many consequences, but "hope" is not among them. The Cleveland Plain Dealer editorialized on June 1, that the bill "will just bore new holes into an already battered economy." [.] Despite these economic woes, Senator Boxer claimed that now is the "precise time" to pass a bill that will raise energy prices. "Why do this [the Lieberman-Warner bill] now? We're in a recession. Precisely because we're in a recession is why we should be doing this. This bill is the first thing that brings us hope," Senator Boxer said during her opening remarks on the Senate floor today. To read the rest, please go to: Read More About the Impacts of Lieberman-Warner: www.epw.senate.gov/lieberman-warnerbillexposed Provided by: Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov | |
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