Climate Bill May Jump Subcommittee Options

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Climate Bill May Jump Subcommittee
"Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman may fast-track his controversial climate change bill, bypassing the political hurdles of the subcommittee. I'm still holding firm on my deadline to get a bill out of committee by the end of May and I believe that will probably require us to go right to the full committee and bypass the subcommittee,' Waxman told reporters.": Politico; "The Democrats also confirmed a published report that the White House was interested in linking support for a climate change bill with a separate plan to expand domestic energy production. But Waxman declined to elaborate, saying energy production is not in his committee's jurisdiction; the matter would rest with the Natural Resources Committee.": Greenwire; "NRDC took a look at the [Chamber of Commerce] board of directors and their public positions on global warming and gee, what we found... it turns out that the staff of the U.S. Chamber appears to be projecting the views held by a tiny sliver of its board of directors — just four out of 122 members on the board...": Switchboard's Pete Altman.