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Sen. Manchins common sense approach toward energy policy ignores the threat of global warming
2013-07-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gazette: West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin keeps doing his best to promote himself as some sort of reasonable, bipartisan deal-broker, using his common sense approach to various issues. This maneuvering led him yesterday to be the only Democratic Senator to oppose the confirmation of the woman his partys president wants to run the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the second term of the Obama administration. As we reported in todays Gazette, Sen. Manchin admitted that his vote against Gina McCarthy...
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Sen. Ramsey: New gun law's 'muddied waters' probably means future fighting
2013-07-15 14:07:48| Chemicals - Topix.net
Tennessee employers, public and private, are declaring that the state's "guns in parking lots" law, which took effect July 1, does nothing to change policies prohibiting their employees from bringing weapons onto their property, even if they have a handgun carry permit.
Video: GOP Sen. Enzi: Obamacare "is failing"
2013-07-13 18:57:12| Energy - Topix.net
Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., argued in the weekly Republican address on Saturday that the recent delay of Obamacare's employer mandate proves the law "is failing," calling on Democrats to work with Republicans on a replacement After a brutal 2012 campaign, 30-year-old Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., a former high school football player, begins tackling the ... (more)
Google hosts fundraiser for climate-denying Sen. Jim Inhofe
2013-07-10 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Google, which prides itself on building a "better web that is better for the environment," is hosting a fundraiser for the most notorious climate change denier in Congress, it has emerged. The lunch, at the company`s Washington, D.C., office, will benefit the Oklahoma Republican Jim Inhofe, who has made a career of dismissing climate change as a "hoax" on the Senate floor. Proceeds of the July 11 lunch, priced at $250 to $2,500, will also go to the national Republican Senatorial Committee....
Texas Sen. Patrick running for lieutenant governor
2013-06-27 19:45:55| Electronics - Topix.net
Patrick announced his statewide campaign at a downtown Austin hotel about two blocks from the Capitol.
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