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Article: COMPLEX ENERGY BILL IS A WASTE OF ENERGY.(Editorials)
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- The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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Byline: RICH LOWRY
The cap-and-trade bill passed the House of Representatives shrouded in a fog of willful ignorance and calculated irrationality.
No one could be sure what he was voting for -- not after the 1,200-page bill had a 300-page amendment added at 3:09 a.m. the day of its passage. The bill is so complex and jerry-built that even its supporters can't know how, or if, it will work. And it's metaphysically impossible for someone to know whether the motivating crisis, impending planetary doom, will ever materialize.
Other than that, it's a model exercise in thoughtful lawmaking.
The formulation of the so-called Waxman-Markey bill ...