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Inside GOP science policy, climate change
2015-03-05 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: In Part 3 of our interview with Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), we turn to climate change, which is surely the most politically contentious topic under his jurisdiction as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on commerce, justice and science. Culberson, who represents the Houston area, long has played a role in legislative policymaking on climate change. Among other positions, he's opposed to cap-and-trade programs. His approach to climate change legislation emerged most...
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GOP Faults Shift Of Funds To HealthCare.Gov From NIH And CDC
2015-03-03 23:50:30| Biotech - Topix.net
House Republicans are questioning why the Obama administration transferred money last year from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to pay for the operation of the federal health insurance marketplace. "Now it appears that we are robbing Peter to pay Paul in order to finance the disaster that is HealthCare.Gov," said Rep. Jody Hice, a Republican congressman from suburban Atlanta.
Science proves GOP wrong climate change &national security
2015-03-02 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: At last week`s Conservative Political Action Conference, GOP chair Reince Priebus had some strong words about how President Barack Obama prioritizes threats to national security. "Democrats tell us they understand the world, but then they call climate change, not radical Islamic terrorism, the greatest threat to national security," he said. "Look, I think we all care about our planet, but melting icebergs aren`t beheading Christians in the Middle East." The comment came after the president,...
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Sen. Jim Inhofe embarrasses the GOP and the U.S.
2015-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: SEN. JIM Inhofe (R-Okla.) chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee -- and he seems determined to make that fact a national embarrassment. Mr. Inhofe delivered a Senate floor speech about the hysteria on global warming last week with two conspicuous props. One was a blown-up photo of his family standing in front of an igloo labeled AL GORES NEW HOME. The Inhofe clan constructed it following a 2010 snowstorm that had been unprecedented, it set a record that year, Mr. Inhofe explained....
GOP concedes fight to Obama on open Internet
2015-02-25 05:40:36| Telecom - Topix.net
Republicans on Capitol Hill, who once blasted the plan as "Obamacare for the Internet," now say they are unlikely to pass a legislative response that would undo perhaps the biggest policy shift since the Internet became a reality. WASHINGTON >> Senior Republicans conceded on Tuesday that the grueling fight with President Barack Obama over the regulation of Internet service appears over, with the president and an army of Internet activists victorious.
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