Posts Tagged ‘waxman’
Here’s the headline story: Last week, telecommunications giant AT&T, which employs more than 280,000 people, announced it would take a $1 billion, non-cash, first-quarter loss because the bill ends an exemption on benefits for retirees. Likewise, the largest maker of earth-moving equipment, Caterpillar, claims it will take a $100 million charge. Deere & Company, the [...]
Tags: AT&T, bill maher, boeing, caterpillar, deduction, deere, goodrich, health-care, ingersoll-rand, obamacare, prescriptions, reform, stupak, tax, unemployment, verizon, waxman
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First, the obvious: Per Eric Holder, the new hate crimes bill was not intended to protect everyone equally under the law. I got a problem with that. The ONLY intent of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights is to insure everyone is protected equally by the law. For the US Attorney General to [...]
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September 29th, 2009 | No Comments
Waxman-Markey is the creme of every liberal’s crop of life control legislations. This thing affects every single aspect of life as you know it. Surprisingly, it’s not gotten anywhere. “Cap and trade” has sort of become synonoums with “taxing”. Now, I a cynic. I think Waxman-Markey is loonie. I have yet to have one single [...]
Tags: barbara-boxer, boxer, cap and trade, climate, control, enivornment, global warming, henry, legislation, waxman, waxman-markey
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The Energy Information Administration, who touts themselves as “Official Energy Statistics from the US Government”, released a rather astounding conclusion. While most people have been scare-mongering by saying Waxman-Markey will practically bankrupt most lower income people through much higher energy prices, EIA says this is not true at all: ACESA increases energy prices, but effects [...]
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I receive several newsletters in regards to what I do at work. This is one I received this morning. Kentucky lawmakers discuss possible effects of federal energy bill FRANKFORT – State lawmakers shared comments and concerns about a federal bill that proposes, among other changes, a three percent cut in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by [...]
Tags: brandon smith, california, cap and trade, coal, david boswell, fischer tropsch, global warming, harry moberly, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Jeff Derouen, kentucky, Kentucky Public Service Commission, markey, PSC, Public Services Commission, rate increase, robert stivers, Special Subcommittee on Energy, synthesis, waxman
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That’s my opinion. No one really cares all that much tho. But, maybe they would if I had some uppity title like Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. That’d be kind of impressive dontcha think? Well, I can’t claim the title, but the guy who can, Dr, James Hansen, has. He doesn’t [...]
Tags: cap and trade, carbon, clean air act, co2, commerce for economic affairs, credits, disaster, environmental protection agency, EPA, Goddard, institute for space studies, james hansen, markey, nasa, robery shapiro, waxman
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