Entries categorized as ‘Barack Obama’
WASHINGTON — Congress has taken its first step toward an energy revolution, with the prospect of profound change for every household, business, industry and farm in the decades ahead.
It was late Friday when the House passed legislation that would, for the first time, require limits on pollution blamed for global warming _ mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels. Now the Senate has the chance to change the way Americans produce and use energy.
What would the country look like a decade from now if the House-passed bill _ or, more likely, a water-down version _ were to become the law of the land?
“It will open the door to a clean energy economy and a better future for America,” President Barack Obama said Saturday.
via How The Climate Bill May Spur An Energy Revolution.
Categories: Barack Obama · Energy & Climate Change
Tagged: Barack Obama, Climate Change, Democrats, Economy
As a vote on a controversial climate change bill approached on Friday afternoon, Democrats on the Hill were turning their attention to progressive Democrats rather than attempting to recruit more Republican support for the measure.
The late-stage whip count on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 has produced a particular political irony. A measure crafted by two Democrats in the House of Representatives — Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) — over the course many years could hinge on the willingness of members of their own party to compromise.
via Climate Change Bill May Hinge On Recalcitrant Progressives.
Categories: Barack Obama · Democrats · Energy & Climate Change
Tagged: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Climate Change
WASHINGTON — Although U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan told community activists at a health care rally Thursday that she agrees with the need to reform health care, she isn’t ready to support President Barack Obama’s call for a public health care option.
Hagan, a Greensboro Democrat, has come under fire recently after word got out on Capitol Hill that she disagreed with Obama’s plan for a public option. Such an option would allow residents to join a government plan if they liked, and would be open to all.
Hagan sits on the Senate health committee that is helping write the bill, and her vote could be necessary to get the measure out of committee.
via N.C. Sen. Hagan not ready to back Obama’s health care plan – Politics Wire – News & Observer.
Categories: Barack Obama · Democrats · Healthcare · Kay Hagan
Tagged: Barack Obama, Democrats, Healthcare Reform, Kay Hagan
While North Carolina voters generally like President Barack Obama, there is deep skepticism about his health care and energy proposals, according to a new state-wide poll.
The survey found that 44 percent of North Carolina voters had a favorable opinion of Obama’s health care proposals while 50 percent had an unfavorable opinion, with 5 percent having no opinion, Rob Christensen reports.
There was similar skepticism about Obama’s energy proposals. The survey found that 44 percent had a favorable opinion, while 45 percent had an unfavorable opinion, with 11 percent undecided.
Obama remains more popular than some his policies. The survey found that 50 percent had a favorable view of the president’s job performance compared with 37 percent who had an unfavorable view.
That is according to the first in a series of state-wide surveys of Southern states conducted for the Southern Political Report, a long-time political newsletter.
The poll of 894 registered voters in North Carolina was conducted June 22 by Majority Opinion Research in Atlanta, It had a margin of error of plus or minus three percent.
via Obama up in N.C., policies not | newsobserver.com projects.
Categories: Barack Obama · Campaign Politics · Energy & Climate Change · Healthcare · NC Politics
Tagged: Barack Obama, Climate Change, Health Reform, North Carolina Politics
When Henry Fairlie came to America, the editors of this magazine deemed his arrival sufficiently momentous to run a page-long story about him. The 42-year-old writer had been called “the most controversial political journalist in England” and “the first of the Angry Young Men” for his piercing and heterodox columns in the British press—including his most celebrated one, in which he coined the term “the establishment.” After his 1966 move to the United States, he would write some of the liveliest and most provocative essays of his time about what NEWSWEEK called “the American scene.”
via Reagan Was Wrong | Newsweek Politics | Newsweek.com.
Categories: Barack Obama · Conservatism · Democrats · Republicans
A majority of Americans see government action as critical to controlling runaway health-care costs, but there is broad public anxiety about the potential impact of reform legislation and conflicting views about the types of fixes being proposed on Capitol Hill, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
