Pollution Concerns May Snag Energy Bill

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Whatever it takes this plan MUST be killed. Call your Senators today!



Wed Nov 19, 3:03 AM ET
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated press Writer

WASHINGTON - Congress is one vote away from sending a massive energy bill to the White House, but it could still hit a snag in the Senate over a dispute involving a gasoline additive that has contaminated drinking water in several dozen states.


The energy legislation won solid backing from Republicans as well as a surprising number of Democrats on Tuesday at it whizzed through the House by a 246-180 margin, leaving it up to the Senate to take up the bill later this week.


The measure, covering some 1,100 pages, would provide $23 billion in tax incentives and other measures to produce more coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power and double the need for corn-based ethanol, a bonanza for the Farm Belt states.


The boost in ethanol production to 5 billion gallons a year has broad Republican and Democratic support and is viewed as a key to getting the bill passed.


But some Senate Democrats are counting votes to see if they might be able to derail the legislation — the product of 2 1/2 months of sometimes bitter negotiations between House and Senate Republicans — by a filibuster. They want stripped from the bill a provision that protects makers of MTBE from product liability lawsuits arising from the gasoline additive fouling drinking water.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20031119/ap_on_go_co/energy_bill

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1. In related news.

Congress Approves Energy-Water Bill
Tue Nov 18, 8:44 PM ET By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Congress approved a compromise $27.3 billion energy and water bill Tuesday that gives President Bush (news - web sites) less than he wanted for research on low-intensity nuclear weapons.



The bill, however, does give Bush most of what he sought for early work on the long-delayed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.


The legislation, which is packed with hundreds of water projects from coast to coast, including many the administration did not request, was approved by the House 387-36 by the Senate on a voice vote.


It is the sixth of 13 spending bills for the budget year that started Oct. 1 that Congress has completed.


At least five of the remaining bills are being combined into a gigantic measure lawmakers hope to approve so they can adjourn for the year before Thanksgiving.


But little progress was apparent Tuesday in resolving issues connected to that package, including disputes over overtime pay, ownership of television stations and labeling meat to show its country of origin.


If anything, new disputes arose. Republicans said the White House was now unhappy with provisions limiting its ability to contract out some government work now performed by federal employees.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=1278&e=4&u=/ap/20031119/ap_on_go_co/congress_spending

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2. House vote on the corporate welfare,

I mean energy bill. 29 Democrats voted for it, NO rethugs voted against it. Kinda makes a mockery of the "moderate republican" theory doesn't it, they've ALL got to go. Kinda messy, sorry.



--- AYES 248 ---
Aderholt Gillmor Osborne
Akin Gingrey Ose
Alexander Goode Otter
Bachus Goodlatte Oxley
Baker Goss Paul
Ballenger Granger Pearce
Barrett (SC) Graves Pence
Bartlett (MD) Green (TX) Peterson (MN)
Barton (TX) Green (WI) Peterson (PA)
Bass Greenwood Petri
Beauprez Gutierrez Pickering
Bereuter Gutknecht Platts
Biggert Hall Pombo
Bilirakis Harris Pomeroy
Bishop (GA) Hart Porter
Bishop (UT) Hastings (WA) Portman
Blackburn Hayes Pryce (OH)
Blunt Hayworth Putnam
Boehlert Hefley Quinn
Boehner Hensarling Ramstad
Bonilla Herger Regula
Bonner Hinojosa Rehberg
Bono Hobson Renzi
Boozman Hoekstra Reyes
Boswell Hostettler Reynolds
Boucher Houghton Rogers (AL)
Bradley (NH) Hulshof Rogers (KY)
Brady (TX) Hunter Rogers (MI)
Brown (SC) Hyde Rohrabacher
Brown-Waite, Ginny Isakson Ros-Lehtinen
Burgess Issa Royce
Burns Istook Ryan (WI)
Burton (IN) Janklow Ryun (KS)
Buyer Jefferson Sandlin
Calvert John Saxton
Camp Johnson (IL) Schrock
Cannon Johnson, Sam Scott (GA)
Cantor Jones (NC) Sensenbrenner
Capito Keller Sessions
Carter Kelly Shadegg
Castle Kennedy (MN) Shaw
Chabot King (IA) Shays
Chocola King (NY) Sherwood
Coble Kingston Shimkus
Cole Kirk Shuster
Collins Kline Simmons
Costello Knollenberg Simpson
Cox Kolbe Smith (MI)
Cramer LaHood Smith (NJ)
Crane Lampson Smith (TX)
Crenshaw Latham Souder
Cubin LaTourette Stearns
Culberson Leach Stenholm
Cunningham Lewis (CA) Sullivan
Davis (TN) Lewis (KY) Sweeney
Davis, Jo Ann Linder Tancredo
Davis, Tom Lipinski Tauzin
Deal (GA) LoBiondo Taylor (NC)
DeLay Lucas (KY) Terry
Diaz-Balart, L. Lucas (OK) Thomas
Diaz-Balart, M. Manzullo Thornberry
Dooley (CA) Matsui Tiahrt
Doolittle McCotter Tiberi
Dreier McCrery Turner (OH)
Duncan McHugh Turner (TX)
Dunn McInnis Upton
Edwards McKeon Visclosky
Ehlers Mica Vitter
Emerson Miller (FL) Walden (OR)
English Miller (MI) Walsh
Everett Miller, Gary Wamp
Feeney Moran (KS) Weldon (FL)
Ferguson Murphy Weldon (PA)
Flake Musgrave Weller
Foley Myrick Whitfield
Forbes Nethercutt Wicker
Fossella Neugebauer Wilson (NM)
Franks (AZ) Ney Wilson (SC)
Frelinghuysen Northup Wolf
Gallegly Norwood Wynn
Garrett (NJ) Nunes Young (AK)
Gerlach Nussle Young (FL)
Gibbons Ortiz

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3. This rotten plan

NEEDS to be killed once and for all. A self-serving :kick:!