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GOP Pressures Obama to Build Pipeline with New 'Keystone XL Clock'
2013-02-12 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans on Monday put President Obama on the "Keystone Clock." In a new messaging campaign, the committees GOP members have plastered a Keystone Clock on its website that shows 1,606 days have passed since TransCanada Corp. filed its September 2008 application for the oil sands pipeline with the State Department. Keystone XL remains an opportunity to help create a more secure energy future, but the clock on Keystone XL is still ticking as the president...
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GOP seeks housing-agency changes
2013-02-07 13:41:52| Trucking - Topix.net
Republican lawmakers said Wednesday that they will seek changes at the financially troubled Federal Housing Administration as a first step toward a broader overhaul of the government's role in housing finance.
House GOP, Citing North African Turmoil, Boosts Keystone XL Pressure on Obama
2013-01-30 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: A mostly Republican group of House lawmakers is putting fresh pressure on President Obama to greenlight the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline, and a senior member said that another Capitol Hill hearing could be in the offing. In light of the recent events in North Africa, we need to be investing in energy infrastructure to control our own resources. We need to be able to move resources, not only from Canada, but from the many domestic shale plays that have recently come on line. We need to make...
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Former GOP Rep. Bob Inglis pushes market-based climate-change ideas
2013-01-28 07:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Caller: A former congressman says he has the solution to the world`s carbon emissions problem. And he`s a Republican. With climate change back on lawmakers` radar after President Barack Obama`s second inaugural address, former Rep. Bob Inglis is one of the few in his party willing to speak out on the issue. A victim of the tea party`s wrath in 2010, Inglis represented one of South Carolina`s most conservative districts for 12 years. Now he believes proposing a conservative answer to climate change could...
Boehner: GOP to Focus on Debt, Not Immigration or Climate
2013-01-23 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday that House Republicans would keep their focus on budget deficits in the coming weeks, after President Obamas inaugural address called for action on climate change, immigration and a host of other issues. Were going to continue to focus especially here over this next 90-, 120-day period on bringing some fiscal responsibility to Washington, Boehner told reporters. Boehners remarks came a day before the House is scheduled to vote on a measure...
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