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...best chance to enact considerable climate legislation anytime soon received a devastating blow. Citing his concern over Democrats’ focus on immigration reform, Republican Senator Lindsay Graham withdrew his support for a climate-change bill that was supposed to be announced on Monday. Although it is certainly Sen. Graham’s right to be upset over the Democrats' decision to also begin discussions on a new immigration bill, choosing to pull support, especially when the bill was so close to being formally introduced and stood a good chance of passing, was a terrible decision on many fronts...
Following co-author Sen. Graham’s decision, the bill likely faces stiff competition. The bill supposedly was to include many important goals such as reducing U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions by 17 percent over the next 10 years, employing an emissions cap on several economic sectors, creating a $10-billion fund for clean-coal power plants and 12 new nuclear power plants, and providing incentives for building nuclear power plants. Although we can only speculate as to its full impact, the proposed bill with the aforementioned specifics is a step in the right direction—even...
DiDomenico would replace state Sen. Anthony D. Galluccio, who resigned in January after he was sentenced to a one-year jail term for failing a series of breathalyzer tests, a violation of his probation for a hit-and-run accident which injured...
Boston is the penultimate stop on the tour and is being labeled the “Greater Boston Tea Party,” according to the Tea Party Express’ Web site. Top Massachussetts GOP members like Sen. Scott Brown won’t be there to greet Palin, but thousands of other Tea Party members and observers will be. Here’s your chance to see some Tea Partiers up close...
...original version of this article misstated that Sen. Ted Kaufman had served for 32 years as a Senate aide. In fact, Kaufman served as an aide to then Sen. Joe Biden for 22 years, from...