Murkowski resolution fails
Senator Lisa Murkowski’s resolution to keep the EPA from regulating emissions failed Thursday. Republicans voted as a block in support of the Republican from Alaska. All but six Democrats opposed it.
The Washington Post‘s Ezra Klein opines:
“But though Murkowski might have lost the vote, it looks like she won the war: It’s hard to see a strong climate bill getting 60 votes in a Senate where her bill got 47. And Reid had to make a lot of tough promises in order to beat the Murkowski bill back — including giving a vote to Jay Rockefeller’s bill to delay EPA action for two years.”
Earth2Tech’s Josie Garthwaite reports some of the stand-out quotes from yesterday’s debate:
http://earth2tech.com/2010/06/10/murkowski-resolution-fails-humdingers-from-the-debate/
