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Climate Legislation Headed to the Senate Floor

Bill faces an uphill battle to get the needed 60 votes.

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Published: Apr 15, 2010

Bipartisan climate change legislation is expected to be introduced in the Senate next week on or around Earth Day. But passage is still viewed as an uphill battle despite the effort by its authors to attract enough GOP votes to overcome a 60 vote Senate hurdle.

Senators John Kerry, D-Mass., Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., hope to come up with a winning formula that includes more concessions to oil and gas and nuclear proponents. But even after President Obama's recent move to open new offshore drilling areas American Farm Bureau's Rick Krause has doubts about the bill's prospects.

Krause says it remains to be seen whether or not Senators will want to take a vote on a climate bill that will raise people's costs through either a gasoline tax or otherwise, especially ahead of key mid-term elections where many voters would be likely to remember gasoline tax increases. Still Krause admits more offshore oil and gas drilling might help some lawmakers decide on a climate bill, depending on what's unveiled next week.

Last November Graham talked about his bid to attract more of his Republican colleagues on a compromise bill.

"The energy independence piece - offshore drilling for oil and gas - has to be done in a meaningful way to add to our inventory and add jobs," Graham said. "The nuclear piece has to create a renaissance of nuclear power that will help solve the climate problem as well as create millions of new jobs."

But nuclear power remains controversial with environmental groups who were also sharply critical of Obama's offshore drilling moves.

And still waiting in the wings is Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and her resolution to block EPA from regulating greenhouse gases unilaterally and Senator Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., who would delay EPA action for two years.

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