{"id":5656,"date":"2010-06-10T18:32:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T22:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2010-06-10T19:11:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T23:11:22","slug":"senate-votes-to-turn-out-the-lights-on-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5656\/senate-votes-to-turn-out-the-lights-on-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Votes to &#8220;Turn Out the Lights on America&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Senate this afternoon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&amp;session=2&amp;vote=00184\" target=\"_blank\">voted 47-53<\/a> to reject a resolution (S.J. Res. 26), sponsored by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), to prevent the EPA from unilaterally regulating all greenhouse\u00a0 gas emissions\u00a0 in the United States (in other words, regulating pretty much the entire U.S. economy).<\/p>\n<p>Six Democrats joined with all 41 Republicans in voting \u201cYes.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They included Senators Evan Bayh (IN), Mary Landrieu (LA), Blanche Lincoln (AR), Ben Nelson (NE), Mark Pryor (AR) and Jay Rockefeller (WV).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During a floor speech prior to his vote in support of the resolution, Senator Rockefeller said he was voting \u201cYes\u201d because \u201cI don\u2019t want EPA turning out the lights on America.\u201d\u00a0 Kudos to him.\u00a0 Unfortunately, however, 53 of his Senate colleagues decided it best to relinquish Congress\u2019 authority to a merry band of now unchecked, free-wheeling EPA bureaucrats for no other reason than the realization that their beloved Cap-and-Trade \u201cclimate change\u201d bill is destined for failure in the normal legislative process.<\/p>\n<p>Those 53 Senators, together with President Obama who lobbied hard to defeat the resolution, now must take full responsibility for the negative economic consequences sure to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Senate this afternoon voted 47-53 to reject a resolution (S.J. Res. 26), sponsored by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), to prevent the EPA from unilaterally regulating all greenhouse\u00a0 gas emissions\u00a0 in the United States (in other words, regulating pretty much the entire U.S. economy). Six Democrats joined with all 41 Republicans in voting \u201cYes.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,608,887,1392,27,1391,1390],"class_list":["post-5656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cap-and-trade","tag-epa","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-jay-rockefeller","tag-jobs","tag-lisa-murkowski","tag-s-j-res-26"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5656"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5666,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}