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To: tejek who wrote (606982)	4/7/2011 2:48:15 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1579983

Corporations influence votes, both by influencing opinion, and more directly, but they rarely control the votes. Regulation like the clean air act creates high costs. Members of congress from states with concentrations of industries that face the high costs, are more likely to notice the impact of existing law and regulation, and to recognie the cost of potential new legislation and regulation in this area. That hardly means they are owned by the corporations. As far as this specific vote, your post says almost nothing about it, no bill number, no real description, "dilute the existing clean air act" is vague and perhaps deliberately distortive. Searching for "Dirty Air Democrats" got me basically the same rant you posted. So I searched for - Clean air act vote Begich - and I think I got the right vote. Its not rolling back protections that have been imposed, or even stopping new restrictions, its just preventing the EPA from unilaterally creating new restrictions that are not covered by legislation ---- Big vote today, where's Mark Begich? By Alex Gimarc Alaska Standard Contributor Today the US Senate will debate Senate Joint Resolution 26. This is a formal resolution that will stop the EPA from creating and implementing regulations controlling carbon dioxide emissions as a pollutant. The entire text of the resolution follows: JOINT RESOLUTION Disapproving a rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the endangerment finding and the cause or contribute findings for greenhouse gases under section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the endangerment finding and the cause or contribute findings for greenhouse gases under section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act (published at 74 Fed. Reg. 66496 (December 15, 2009)), and such rule shall have no force or effect. Senator Murkowski has over 40 votes in the senate and a promise that the resolution will be debated for seven hours. After the debate, there will be a vote. There will be no filibuster. Should the Resolution pass, it will be sent to the House for its consideration. Should the House pass it, the Resolution will go to the President’s desk for signature. Obama is expected to veto it. It is important to note that this Resolution does nothing except protect congressional prerogative to define pollutants under the Clean Air Act. It does not mean that Murkowski has changed her mind about manmade global warming; she is still a True Believer. It does not mean that Murkowski has backed off from her support for federal action to control carbon dioxide emissions; she still supports it. It just means that she believes congress ought to be pulling this particular trigger rather than the Executive Branch doing it unilaterally... thealaskastandard.com