Senate Timetable on Climate Change Bill Pushed Back

摘要

Sen. Barbara Boxer's (D-CA) decision to push back the introduction of climate change legislation until later this month, combined with the Senate's intent to focus on health care legislation when its returns this week, is raising some doubts about the fate of a climate change bill this year. "It does raise questions about whether there will actually be a bill on the Senate floor. It may only get as far as the committee this year," said Martin Edwards, vice president of legislative affairs for the Interstate Natural Gas Association. And the "health care debate is going to kind of delay things anyway"or,evenworse,completelydrownoutclimatechange this year, he noted.