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"From 2006 to now, we spent $36 billion on climate change -- and what do we have to show for it? A lot of programs and pamphlets," he said. "We need to change that..." said Rep. Ralph Hall (R-Tex.), chairman of the Science Committee.
2/18/11, "House Republicans Fire White House Climate Advisers as Frenzied Budget Debate Continues," ClimateWire, NY Times
"One of amendment's top targets is U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern, Obama's chief treaty negotiator at the U.N. global warming talks. It also defunds Obama's climate adviser, a post formerly held by Carol Browner, and several other "czar" positions that Republicans decry as unaccountable to Congress.
"There's actually a czar still trying to impose a cap-and-trade regime," Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the amendment's author, claimed on the hectic House floor yesterday.
- "You've got a global warming czar that's running around spending taxpayer money promoting a policy that would destroy jobs."
House Republicans also debated a controversial amendment last night designed to strip EPA's ability to make or enforce rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Rep. Ted Poe (R-Tex.) offered the measure at 12:42 a.m. It would defund the EPA program
- for seven months. The amendment will be voted on today.
"This amendment will put an end to any back-door attempt to go around Congress and circumvent the will of the people," Poe says in a statement on his website."...
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- It would be nice if we only had to undo everything Obama has done, but we have to get rid of a lot of George Bush stuff too. ed.
Reference, George Bush and ethanol, 2/11/2008, "Bloomberg slams U.S. energy law over corn ethanol," Environmental News Network, Reuters by Louis Charbonneau and Timothy Gardner
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- Todd Stern is a Soros guy-who isn't? The results are there for anyone who wishes to see- he even brags about them. If Soros is involved, it's bad for America. If we simply get out of the UN, that would help. ed.
Reference: 1/9/10, "U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern Joins Global Business Leaders at U.N. Investor Summit on Climate Change,"PR Web
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