November 23, 2003
The Energy Bill Filibuster is On
Who says the Democratic Party is dead and dying? Certainly not the Republicans in Senate and certainly not the White House who were all but gloating about passage of the much ballyhooed Energy Bill, before it cleared the Senate floor. Now it appears as thought the ill-conceived bill might be dead as the Democrats launch a filibuster. Should Americans rejoice at its passing? Is there any reason to decry the death of a bill that does nothing to address the cause of American energy independence now, or in the foreseeable future?
Better in my estimation to let the Energy Bill die, then to sigh into law a bill that on its face is bad for America.
The bill is apparently dead this year. NY Times reports today that Frist’s promise to ressurect it will not come to pass this year since they are running out of time. Carl Husle reports,
Congress abandoned its efforts to enact new energy legislation this year as Senate Republican leaders said Monday night that time had run out to resolve an impasse blocking a vote on the measure.
Despite a last-ditch effort by the Bush administration to rescue the measure, a spokeswoman for the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, said the proposal would be pushed over until 2004.Posted by: David R. Remer at November 25, 2003 10:55 AM
