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House debating "Cap and Trade"

By JOSELYN KING
POSTED: June 26, 2009

House Debating Cap and Trade

By JOSELYN KING

Political Writer

WHEELING -- U.S. Reps. Charles Wilson and Zack Space, both D-Ohio, voted in favor today on a measure to bring "cap and trade" legislation up for vote in the House.

U.S. Rep. Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va., failed to vote on the resolution to begin debate on the bill. U.S. Reps. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., both voted against the measure.

The House is at present continuing with debate on the bill, and could take a final vote on "cap and trade" before it adjourns today for the 4th of July recess.

The motion to have a vote passed by a vote of 217 to 205, with 11 House members not casting votes, for a total of 433 House members. There currently are two vacant seats in the 435-member House.

Of the 11 non-voting members, eight are Democrats and three are Republican.

No Republicans voted in favor of a vote on "cap and trade."

There were also 30 Democrats who voted against the White House-backed legislation.

Wilson indicated this week he would vote no on cap and trade legislation, while Space remains uncommitted.

"He is not changing his position," said Hillary Wicai-Viers, communications director for Wilson. "He voted to bring the bill to the floor for three hours of debate and a final vote.

"When the final vote is taken he will be voting no. He's not opposed to a vote being taken or opposed to open debate on the bill. He just opposes the bill in its current form."

Member Comments
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beach1
06-27-09 8:15 PM
now lets hear it,i will love your replies!and laugh all the way to the polls next year!

beach1
06-27-09 8:13 PM
yoy are one nasty,mean lady.i even call you a lady!

beach1
06-27-09 8:12 PM
nancy,i hope you are not married!

beach1
06-27-09 8:11 PM
hang in there ellis,you are winning this debate,since you have the truth on your side!

NancySI
06-27-09 2:56 PM
Would you believe the same person who said "The idiot Nancy Pelosi" "The Nancy and Barry show" "Barry Hussein Obama and that foolish, shrew woman who calls herself an American, Nancy Pelosi" "When have Social Democrats criticized Barry Hussein?" "Your intelligence is wasted on this D-Bag." ALSO said this "When you have no argument, pull out the personal attacks"?????

Right wing extremist hypocrisy. If it weren't for their hypocrisy, they would have nothing to offer.

EllisWyatt
06-27-09 1:46 PM
When you have no argument, pull out the personal attacks. That is typical left-wing drivel. For, if you had any logical statements to make, you would make them.

The name calling tells reasonably intelligent people that your IQ is in the lower end of the scale. Address the topic at hand. If you want to insult me as you do so, fine. But at least contribute something remotely intelligent.

NancySI
06-27-09 9:37 AM
Ellis is really sarah palin playing her flute with the cooperation of this "newspaper".

daddybig8
06-27-09 6:31 AM
i thought big coal powers would do more to shut this limitation on coal fired plants down. china can do what they want, while we are fighting amoung ourselves.we are doomed.

GymJones
06-27-09 1:34 AM
EllisWyatt why haven't you been committed yet?

Are the asylums really that full of kiddy diddlers that they will not take you in?

Do us all a favor, pack your bags and get the F out of our country. We don't need pedo's like you sniffing around the school yards anymore.

EllisWyatt
06-27-09 1:12 AM
wonder

Boone Pickens supports "clean technology" because he is heavily invested in the alternatives that would get billions in government contracts.

Follow the money.

Barry Hussein Obama and that foolish, shrew woman who calls herself an American, Nancy Pelosi, have just wrecked our economy.

After the recess, they will take up ruining health care for all but their union cronies.

Where are the 3 million new jobs Barry promised? Where is the 8% or less unemployment that would result from passing the stimulus? Why was Bush's $500 billion deficit the end of the world, while Barry's $3 TRILLION deficit is okay?

Stop drinking the party Kool-Aid, people. I criticized Bush for his handling of the Iraq conflict, his spending, his amnesty for illegals, his Dubai Ports deal, his failure to banish abortion and his lack of speaking ability.

When have Social Democrats criticized Barry Hussein? At what point, if ever, will anything be his fault?

WVEXPAT
06-26-09 10:33 PM
The jobs that have gone overseas were due to regulations/taxation like this bill. If you want to see more jobs go away, go ahead and support this legislation!

Thebudman
06-26-09 10:29 PM
"The dems that have blocked drilling here to make us independent of foreign oil."

WHAT?

wonderwhy
06-26-09 9:25 PM
ellis-

i do wonderwhy you were complainging when all the jobs were going over seas previously

wonderwhy
06-26-09 9:23 PM
ellis-

why do you think exxon mobil is making strides towrds pollution? why do youthink pickens is supporting this? why do you think tha tconsol has commericals saying they have clean coal ideas? it is not nancy pellosi's fault. adn i am not even going to address your name for the president. it is merely a fact, adn our elected officials voted on it. geeeeezzzzzzz. the only thing, i wonderwhy i am even addressing your comment. i looked at the armco thing you talked about , adn it wasn't as you reported.

EllisWyatt
06-26-09 9:09 PM
Obama said during the campaign (Jan. 2008) that his cap & trade proposals would "necessarily increase costs to utilities, which will be passed on to consumers".

The idiot Nancy Pelosi was shouting today "this legislation will create JOBS!" Perhaps Nancy is losing what little remains of her tiny IQ. Obama promised to create 3 million jobs with the stimulus. Didn't happen. He promised that unemployment would not go above 8% if the stimulus passed. It is now 9.5% and climbing. He decried the $500 billion Bush deficit and proceeded to pass a $3 trillion deficit.

The Nancy and Barry show will do NOTHING to reduce global pollution. What it WILL do is put Americans out of work, as more corporations move overseas and rising utility costs destroy what's left of our economy.

I won't even get into the fraud health care scheme...

Marsie
06-26-09 7:38 PM
Democrats won the vote by 7 points with 8 Republicans voting with them. Do we know yet who those 8 Republican Congressmen are?

vietnamvet
06-26-09 4:48 PM
The dems that have blocked drilling here to make us independent of foreign oil. It is the Dems that have blocked Nuclear power plants, like the French, Koreans and Iranians have. So I think that he might try for a real energy bill instead of this massive tax increase.

WVJeep
06-26-09 4:20 PM
B O H I C A

cory1978
06-26-09 3:22 PM
this is bad juju

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