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Senate Democrats to meet Thursday to hash out climate and energy strategy
Senate Democrats are gathering Thursday to see if they can get closer to determining details and a strategy for moving a climate and energy plan that may hit the floor next week.
“We’re going to be making a decision in the near future,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday.
That includes when he will bring a climate and energy strategy to the Senate floor and whether it will include a first-time carbon-pricing plan for power plants. Two leading senators working on such a plan — John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) — on Tuesday said they need more time to work out a deal with utility companies.
Energy will be one of two topics at a Senate Democratic policy lunch Thursday, Reid said. “So we’re really not a point where I can determine what I think is best for the caucus,” he said.
He said he will take a head count of where the caucus is on the issue at that meeting. “But we’re still trying to find a Republican, two or three, to help us with energy,” he said. “We haven’t given up on that yet.”
Reid’s intent has been to at least start the energy and climate debate next week.
