Senate blocks vote on House Energy bill « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Senate blocks vote on House Energy bill

Published by lizveazey, December 7th, 2007 Government , Politics , global warming

this just in, the Senate did not have the 60 votes needed to get a vote on the floor of the senate on the Energy Bill. Over the next few days — they will work through the weekend — Senators are moving to gut the House Energy Bill, and it’s likely that the Renewable Energy Standard will either be removed or weakened and the long term tax package may go, too, to earn the votes of at least 7 more Senators. Then the Senate will officially vote on an amended version of the energy bill early next week most likely Tuesday.
We need to keep the pressure on, and hopefully we can save the good elements of the bill. Looks like only one Southern Senator, Senator Nelson of Florida voted for a vote , or two if you count Virginia’s Senator Webb in the South Find out how your Senators voted here.

6 Responses to “Senate blocks vote on House Energy bill”

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1 Carlos Rymer Dec 7th, 2007 at 12:58 pm

It’s frustrating, but the pressure has to remain. Tomorrow’s international day of climate action should focus on the Senate (for those in the US). This bill has to pass with all the provisions for renewables the House had.
2 Laura Bartolomei-Hill Dec 7th, 2007 at 1:06 pm

This sucks! One good thing: our Senator Norm Coleman, who just a month ago at Power Shift brushed us off, was one of the only Republicans to vote in favor of the bill!!!

http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/11/08/minnesotan-students-challenge-sen-coleman-on-climate-change/
3 lizveazey Dec 7th, 2007 at 2:13 pm

wow, that’s great news Laura! we’re working to turn around some of our Southern senators, so hopefully we’ll have more stories like this soon!
4 Amy Ortiz Dec 7th, 2007 at 5:22 pm

We need to call our senators who have voted against this bill and let them know that they can’t compromise on our future! I’ll be calling Sen Martinez and letting him know that Fl youth support strong action on climate change. Lets flood their offices with calls

About Liz

While at the University of North Carolina, Liz led one of the first successful campus renewable energy campaigns in the southeast and won the Morris K. Udall scholarship in both 2002 & 2003. She organized the first Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference April 2-4, 2004, to engage other Southern schools beyond UNC in energy and climate work. In the summer of 2004 she became a co-founding member of Energy Action Coalition, which she has been actively involved with since then. She co-chaired the Energy Action Coalition Steering Committee for 2 years and is Executive Director of the Southern Energy Network, which works with students in the Southeast on clean energy and climate initiatives as part of Energy Action Coalition's Campus Climate Challenge. In late fall 2005, she attended the UN Climate Negotiations in Montreal and helped start www.itsgettinghotinhere.org . In 2008, she joined the board of the Highlander Research and Education Center (www.highlandercenter.org).

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