BREAKING: Dems break rules to pass Cap and Trade out of Committee

UPDATE: Looks like Boxer went against the wishes of Sen Reid who was trying to set up the Republicans (see highlighted red below):

Reid gives Boxer green light for 'nuclear option'

By: Darren Samuelsohn, E&E senior reporter

November 04, 2009

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has given the chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee the go-ahead to advance global warming legislation by Tuesday if Republicans have not ended their boycott by then, according to three sources close to the process.

Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) originally wanted to push forward tomorrow with debate and votes on amendments to the 959-page climate bill.

But the sources say Reid urged Boxer to wait until Tuesday, Nov. 10. The markup was originally scheduled to begin yesterday, but the committee's GOP members are boycotting in an effort to force U.S. EPA to further study the climate proposal.

"Makes them look like the 'party of no,'" one source said. "Makes them look frivolous."

Excerpt: See more at Senate Minority Blog

UPDATE: This article from Reuters gives the update on what happened in the Boxer Senate Committee. We have learned from this article that we have one honest Democrat Senator Max Baucus who voted against moving this to the floor. It is time for every voter to be calling their Senators and demanding that this bill be sent back to Committee off the floor of the Senate and Boxer follow the Rules.

Senate panel approves Democratic climate bill
Reuters
11/5/2009
Rueters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday approved a Democratic climate change bill that would require industry to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 20 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels.

With Republicans boycotting the committee's work saying more analysis of the legislation was needed, 10 Democrats voted to approve the legislation and one Democrat, Senator Max Baucus, voted against it.

The bill will now become one of several initiatives aimed at attacking global warming. Senator John Kerry is leading an effort with some Republicans and the White House to craft a compromise bill, which likely would not be voted on by the full Senate until next year at the earliest.

Excerpt: Read more at

reuters.comFirst election in years where voter fraud was not the primary focus -- no hanging chads, no massive amount of absentee ballots that signatures didn't match (only about 3,000 in NJ), and now only two days later we have a sitting Democrat US Senator breaking long standing Rules of the Senate to pass Obama's agenda out of her Committee.

Liberal Democrats in the Senate did not learn one thing from the elections on Tuesday as the Rules still do not apply to them. How much money is Boxer getting paid to ram this bill out of Committee breaking the Rules of the Senate? We have thought for some time that Democrats did not want to follow any Rules when it comes to their Agenda including the Constitution if it puts up roadblocks -- today we have living proof. Is this the United States Senate or a 3rd World Government? Hard to tell the difference after this morning.

Time for Republicans and Independents to get serious about ousting Boxer from the Senate in 2010.

The arrogance of some Senate Democrats matches that of Obama and his staff. Americans may have voted for change in Nov 2008 but they didn't vote for breaking Rules when they elected these arrogant people. The arrogance of the Democrats has grown in the Senate since they took over in 2006 and is getting worse as the most liberal members in the Senate want to take this Country to the far left following the lead of Obama and his Administration while the majority of Americans are center right.

Voters also didn't vote for having their daily lives micro-managed by the Federal Government and paying higher taxes which are rapidly approaching. So much for Obama we are only going to tax the wealthy -- looks like if this bill passes after the Democrats break more rules, it will affect everyone.

Guess you could say that the agreement that Senators Lindsey Graham, Joe Liberman, and John Kerry brokered is DOA. We will post the reaction from Senator Inhofe as soon as we receive his answer to this travesty.

Dems break rules to pass Cap and Tax out of committee
Fox News Channel
11/5/09

Per Fox: Barbara Boxer has forced Crap and Tirade out of committee despite rule that at least two Republicans had to be present. No Repubs were there but she passed it anyway. Change you can believe in!