Washington Post — Close Win Predicted For Cap-and-Trade Bill
In a move reminiscent o the stimulus in February, a plan for global warming fees got a lot bigger and a lot more complicated late in the process and now the House speaker and the president want rapid passage.
There is the safeguard that the Senate may take the time to brush the burrs out, but as
writers Paul Kane, Ben Pershing and David Fahrenthold point out, the Frankenstein bill leaders have created in order to prevent the 41 Democratic defections that would kill the legislation – including potentially massive new subsidies included in a bill that once again, no one will have read.
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