Congratulations to Congressman Waxman for his work in getting the House to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES).<\/p>\n
While there’s lots of work to be done to pass a stronger bill in the Senate, it is worth celebrating Congress’ first strong action on Global Heatstroke. Just imagine if we’d done this a decade ago!<\/p>\n
The vote was 219-212, with 44 Democrats opposing the bill because it wasn’t strong enough or because they hailed from conservative districts. I am a bit ashamed that they stuck with their opposition, though, because this sent a bold statement that clean energy is the future of this nation.<\/p>\n
CA Dems voting against:<\/p>\n
Pete Stark (CA-13)
\n
Jim Costa (CA-20)<\/p>\n
CA Reps voting for:<\/p>\n
Mary Bono-Mack (CA-45)<\/p>\n
Bono-Mack must have known her opponent is really strong this cycle, and sided with a majority of Californians and Americans! As for Stark, I know he had objections to the compromises made to get support from rural Democrats but c’mon, this was a big deal for our nation!<\/p>\n
What a wonderful bit of HOPE and CHANGE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Congratulations to Congressman Waxman for his work in getting the House to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES).<\/p>\n
While there’s lots of work to be done to pass a stronger bill in the Senate, it is worth celebrating Congress’ first strong action on Global Heatstroke. Just imagine if we’d done this a decade ago!<\/p>\n
The vote was 219-212, with 44 Democrats opposing the bill because it wasn’t strong enough or because they hailed from conservative districts. I am a bit ashamed that they stuck with their opposition, though, because this sent a bold statement that clean energy is the future of this nation.<\/p>\n
CA Dems voting against:<\/p>\n
Pete Stark (CA-13)
\n
Jim Costa (CA-20)<\/p>\n
CA Reps voting for:<\/p>\n
Mary Bono-Mack (CA-45)<\/p>\n
Bono-Mack must have known her opponent is really strong this cycle, and sided with a majority of Californians and Americans! As for Stark, I know he had objections to the compromises made to get support from rural Democrats but c’mon, this was a big deal for our nation!<\/p>\n
What a wonderful bit of HOPE and CHANGE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2oQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}