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...Montana Senator Max Baucus, who said, “We cannot afford the unmitigated impacts of climate change but we also cannot afford the unmitigated effects of legislation.”Recently, however, prospects for the Senate climate-change bill written by Senator John Kerry and Senator Barbara Boxer have improved. The reason, no doubt, has been a compromise over nuclear power in which key Democrats have agreed to offer it as a concession to court the votes of Republicans, including John McCain, George Voinovich, Lisa Murkowski, Lamar Alexander, Richard Burr, and Lindsey Graham.Graham co-wrote on article...
...Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will begin hearings on Tuesday on the climate change and energy bill introduced last month by Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass), who arrived in Boston with the President aboard Air Force One, and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif...
...height of chutzpah. But Blagojevich is a creature of his times, the purest embodiment of a culture in which scorn is just another form of attention. And few people are as capable of smiling their way through caustic interviews and brutal daily encounters. Blagojevich, a former Golden Gloves boxer, seems convinced - perhaps by the fans who still snap up his bobblehead dolls on eBay or stop him on the street to pose for pictures - that he can brawl his way back to respectability. "When the facts come out, the people will get it right," he says. "I've always trusted...
...certainly counts, but it also pays to have potent political allies. Tesla, founded by the boyish 37-year-old Elon Musk, who made a fortune creating and then selling PayPal to eBay, has drawn support from California environmentalists and political figures such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Barbara Boxer, both California Democrats, while Fisker's owners include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's most successful venture-capital firms, whose partners include former Vice President Al Gore. "This investment will create thousands of new American jobs and is another critical step in making sure we are positioned...
...everything else under the sun (except for Whitewater and, for the most part, the Monica Lewinsky scandal), this book will be a boon to historians. The casual reader, however, might delight more in Branch's glimpses of an unguarded President: cold-stricken and hunched over a kitchen table in boxer shorts, or discussing Bosnian air strikes while simultaneously filling in one of his ever present crossword puzzles...