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Kerry meets with key House Dems on climate bill
One of the main architects of the Senate's climate bill Tuesday met
with two House Democrats who helped pass the lower chamber's
legislation.
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), who is crafting the
measure with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.),
said in a Twitter post that he hopes to capture some of the House's
"legislative karma." The House approved its climate bill last summer.
Kerry tweeted:
Great meeting with Henry Waxman and Ed Markey today on climate/energy – hope their legislative karma rubbed off
Kerry, Graham and Lieberman hope to roll out their bill next week, which is expected to differ significantly from the House's legislation.
Markey
(D-Mass.) helms the Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global
Warming while Waxman (D-Calif.) is chairman of the Energy and Commerce
Committee. Their legislation contained a sweeping cap-and-trade system to limit
carbon emissions.
The
Senate's bill will likely include a limited cap-and-trade system
combined with other strategies to bring down emissions levels.
The three senators wrote the bill with the hope of attracting enough support to break a GOP filibuster of the measure.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has called on the senators to release the bill quickly with the hope of bringing it to the floor by July 4.
Cross-posted from the Twitter Room
