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Making Republicans pay a price for climate science denial
2013-10-22 15:35:56| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Is it possible to make GOP lawmakers pay a political price for throwing in with the climate science deniers? The League of Conservation Voters is engaged in an interesting experiment designed to answer that question, running ads targeting GOP Senator Ron Johnson and a handful of House GOP lawmakers over their climate denialism. The groups operating theory: Denying what science says about threats to the fate of the planet should perhaps be, you know, a tiny bit politically problematic. GOP lawmakers...
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US Republicans in debt-ceiling offer
2013-10-10 18:19:24| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
US Republicans offer President Obama a short-term debt limit increase in exchange for negotiations about how to end a government shutdown.
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Obama: Republicans using 'extortion'
2013-10-08 23:03:08| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
US President Obama says he is willing to hold budget talks with Republicans, but not until they agree to lift "threats" against the nation's economy.
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Republicans See Keystone Pipeline as Card to Play in Last-Minute Fiscal Talks
2013-09-25 02:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: As a possible government shutdown looms, environmental activists who oppose construction of the Keystone XL pipeline say they are increasingly alarmed that the project might become a bargaining chip in last-minute negotiations between Republicans and President Obama to avert a fiscal crisis. If built, the 1,700-mile pipeline would carry millions of gallons of crude oil from Alberta in Canada to American refineries on the Gulf Coast. Because it crosses an international border, the pipeline requires...
Republicans Block Proposal For National Science Laureate Fearing Science
2013-09-21 01:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PopSci: Earlier this week, House Republicans quietly blocked a proposal that would institute the position of science laureate of the United States. It was expected to sail by--after all, who could possibly have a problem with an honorary position that costs the taxpayers absolutely nothing, the goal of which is to promote science education? House Republicans, apparently. In the United States, the position of laureate--the only national one of which is the poet laureate--is a largely ceremonial position....
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