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Kerry was optimistic that his Replica Louis Vuitton bill would pass. "I'm convinced it has a shot," he said in an interview with MSNBC. But the response to both the Kerry-Boxer legislation and the concept of cap and trade more generally has been less than overwhelming. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) told Roll Call, "I am not committed to [carbon] cap-and-trade under any circumstance."
Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) punted, saying, "It's a difficult issue." Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) came out in favor of dropping cap and trade from anydesigner handbags climate change bill back in August, preferring to focus on renewable energy instead. "The problem of doing both of them together is that it becomes too big of a lift," she said at the time. "I see the cap-and-trade being a real problem."
Kerry-Boxer is actually tougher inReplica Watches one key respect than the Waxman-Markey bill that passed the House. The Senate version requires a 20 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2020. The House's requirement is 17 percent. This has already cost the support of Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.), who wants any bill to address the needs of his coal-mining state.
"The climate legislation proposed Omega replica Watchestoday by Senators Boxer and Kerry is a disappointing step in the wrong direction and I am against it," Rockefeller said in a statement. "Requiring 20 percent emission reductions by 2020 is unrealistic and harmful -- it is simply not enough time to deploy the carbon capture and storage (CCS) and energy efficiency technologies we need. Period."
Republican defections may be few Swiss replica Watchesand far between. John McCain campaigned in 2008 as a supporter of cap and trade, co-sponsoring a bill taking that approach to carbon emissions with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT). But when Reuters asked him if he supported the Kerry-Boxer bill, he replied, "Of course not. Never, never, never." McCain is reportedly steamed about the short shrift the legislation gives to nuclear power.
