(The BARN – Briggsdale, CO) New Senate Ag Committee Chair Blanche Lincoln says she intends to tackle her concerns with the climate change legislation proposed by Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry through her committee – and Kansas GOP Senator Pat Roberts says he and other Ag Republicans are anxious to work with her…102909_BAN_SenateAgRepublicansAnxious_2m45s_128kSOURCE: NAFB News Service

Senate hearing kicks off climate bill WASHINGTON ? Top Obama administration officials are looking to make their case before the Senate for aggressive action to combat climate change, even as Republicans show no sign of softening their dislike of a Democratic bill that would dramatically cut heat-trapping pollution. Senate Democrats have all but abandoned the likelihood of [...]

Politico: U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue says a campaign by the White House and its allies to undermine his $200-million-a-year association has largely failed — and actually has helped raise even more money for its pro-business efforts. In a 75-minute interview with POLITICO, Donohue dismissed recent defections by Apple and at least four other companies, which quit over the Chamber’s opposition to Democratic climate change legislation — as essentially meaningless. “Members c

Credit: Johnson There’s a small office on Capitol Hill that is playing a major role in determining whether Americans will have affordable health care or more renewable energy in the coming year. The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan body in charge of providing economic data to Congress, has an incredible amount of power over our political system. In June, this office released a report on the Affordable Health Choices Act showing that enacting the proposal would increase the def

So says Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), head of the Environment and Public Works Committee, who announced this afternoon that the panel will hold hearings on Boxer’s climate change bill over the course of three days later this month. The announcement is good news for environmentalists, who watched House lawmakers pass a comprehensive ( if watered down ) climate change bill over the summer, only to see the Senate dragging its feet even to unveil a bill. That, Boxer says, is about to change. “