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Democrats rename their climate proposal
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Oct 01, 2009 11:59am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Dina Cappiello and H. Josef Hebert |
| News Date | Thursday, October 1, 2009 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats tried out a new catchphrase yesterday to sell their global-warming bill: "pollution reduction and investment," or PRI.
But it's just another name for "cap and trade," a term derided by Republican critics as "cap and tax" because it will increase energy prices. Democratic polls have shown that it's faring poorly with voters.
The rebranding is an indication of the uphill battle that the climate bill -- which would cap greenhouse gases and also allow industries to buy emission allowances -- faces in the Senate.
A number of Democratic senators entangled in the heated health-care debate said they continue to have trouble with key elements of the climate legislation. Several said it would be a huge challenge -- perhaps impossible -- to try to get a climate bill passed this year.
The idea to remake cap and trade into pollution reduction and investment came from Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., author of the bill unveiled yesterday. He came up with it about a month ago to refocus attention on what the bill would do, not how it goes about doing it. |
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