An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
As Chris Says……
…..WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT????????
Rep. Kaptur gets $3.5 billion sweetener in climate bill
When House Democratic leaders were rounding up votes Friday for the massive climate-change bill, they paid special attention to their colleagues from Ohio who remained stubbornly undecided.
They finally secured the vote of one Ohioan, veteran Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Toledo, the old-fashioned way. They gave her what she wanted – a new federal power authority, similar to Washington state’s Bonneville Power Administration, stocked with up to $3.5 billion in taxpayer money available for lending to renewable energy and economic development projects in Ohio and other Midwestern states.
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry A. Waxman, California Democrat, included the Kaptur project in a 310-page amendment to the legislation unveiled at 3 a.m. Friday, just hours before the bill was to be debated on the House floor. The amendment was packed with other vote-getting provisions, both large and small, that had been sought by dozens of wavering Democrats.
The wheeling and dealing proved successful. Mr. Waxman and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, backed by the personal lobbying of President Obama, won over enough lawmakers to pass the bill narrowly Friday evening, 219-212.
Obviously, politicians are not cheap….BUT THEY CAN BE BOUGHT!
Politicians for sell is nothing new, but you’d think they would stop…just for a minute or two, and consider the ramifications. Nope! That would be asking WAY too much of our supposed elected representatives. Perhaps it’s time to lock the SOBs out of OUR House!
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