Senator Inhofe on Boxer breaking Senate Rules on Cap and Trade

Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) who has been fighting Cap and Trade in different versions for years was on Fox about Boxer violating Committee Rules. As many have said this bill should be called Cap and Tax not Cap and Trade as our energy taxes would rise dramatically if this bill is passed. So much for the Democrat Progressive Mantra that they are for 'the people' when this travesty of a bill that taxes everyone who uses energy is now on the Senate floor due to breaking Senate Rules.

We are not opposed to conservation of our natural resources but we are opposed to politicizing something based on flawed methodology that is used to push the Gore claims that will in the end tax every last American citizen who uses energy.

The President continues to fly AF One at the drop of a hat while wanting all of us to pay higher taxes for energy. Maybe he could help his cause if he grounded himself from flying around the world on AF One like his latest fiasco to Copenhagen for the Olympic bid of Chicago.

BOXER VIOLATES COMMITTEE RULES, REJECTS CLEAR PATH FORWARD

Advances ‘Failed Climate Policy of the Past'



Washington, D.C.-Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, issued the following statement in response to Chairman Boxer's violation of committee rules by reporting out S. 1733, the Kerry-Boxer bill:

"I am deeply disappointed by Chairman Boxer's decision to violate the rules and longstanding precedent of the committee. The Republicans offered a clear path forward to a bipartisan markup, but it was summarily rejected by Chairman Boxer. Instead, she decided to ignore the entreaties of all 6 ranking members from Senate committees with some share of jurisdiction over climate change legislation, as well as leading moderates in the Senate. Her action signals the death knell for the Kerry Boxer bill.

"As was written recently, the Kerry-Boxer bill is ‘bad policy' that ‘resembles the failed climate proposals of the past.' It is time for a different approach, one that grows, rather than shrinks our economy, creates, rather than destroys jobs, and strengthens, rather than weakens our energy security. We can do this by encouraging development of all of America's vast energy resources."

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