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Max Baucus, Montana Democrat, said at the start of a series of hearings in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that he had “serious reservations” about the climate change bill’s target of a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020. He also said the bill should not allow the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate emissions. Mr. Baucus, who also chairs the powerful Senate Finance Committee, became the first Democrat on the panel to object to the bill, which was released Friday in revised form by committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, California Democrat. The Senate bill is stricter than a companion climate bill narrowly passed by the House in June. The House bill requires large carbon dioxide emitters, primarily power plants and factories, to reduce emissions by 17 percent by 2020. The House bill would also bar the EPA from regulating carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act. Both bills call for the same long-term goal: a reduction in emissions of about 80 percent by 2050, achieved through a “cap-and-trade” system. The system could mandate reductions based on declining annual emissions limits and require polluters to obtain permits through a government auction or from other polluters. Mr. Baucus’ Senate Finance Committee is expected to write its own bill covering the distribution of free emissions permits in the bill’s early years, a move intended to insulate consumers, small businesses and farmers from many of the higher energy prices resulting from the legislation. Mrs. Boxer said that Mr. Baucus told her Friday that he could not back the bill in its current form. Still, she expressed hope that recent declines in U.S. emission levels caused by the economic recession of as much as 8 percent since 2005 would make the 2020 target more palatable for Mr. Baucus and other bill critics. Sen. John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who co-wrote the legislation with Mrs. Boxer, would not rule out altering the bill’s EPA provisions to meet Mr. Baucus’ objections, while standing firm on the 2020 reduction target. “If people come to us and say they’re willing to vote for the bill if it’s not there, I’ll listen to them,” he said. Mr. Obama has called the cap-and-trade climate legislation “critical” to making renewable energy profitable. Three Cabinet secretaries and EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson appeared before Mrs. Boxer’s committee Tuesday to lend their support for a comprehensive climate and energy bill, despite Republican criticisms that the climate bill would impose huge new expenses on the U.S. economy and do little to curb global warming. Oklahoma Sen. James M. Inhofe, the committee’s ranking Republican, warned the bill would cost far more than the roughly $100 annually per household estimated by EPA. He put the total annual cost to the economy from the climate change bill at between $300 billion and $400 billion. “That’s something that the American people can’t tolerate and I don’t believe they will,” Mr. Inhofe said. Ms. Jackson said that while EPA was moving to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, she and Mr. Obama still backed legislation as the preferable approach. She said the Kerry-Boxer bill was similar enough to the House-passed climate bill that it would achieve the same goals: a more efficient domestic economy at a low cost to families - less than 50 cents a day. Copyright 2009 The Washington Times, LLC http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/28/baucus-balks-at-climate-change-legislation/?source=newsletter_must-read-stories-today_more_news_carousel Resolved Question: How do people feel about this news editorial over illegals? A sad day for Utah? Deseret News editorial Immigration law is a federal matter. All sides seem to agree on that. But when it comes to whether Utah needs to make up for a lack of will in Washington to deal with it, a lot of folks let emotion and hearsay rule the day. Which is why Utah’s notorious SB81, an immigration bill that promises to harm everyone in the state and that may, to a large extent, be found to be unconstitutional before it gets too old, becomes law today. This law is not compassionate. It promises to pull apart families of undocumented workers who came here seeking a better life and who contribute to the tax base. It turns anyone with brown skin into a suspect and is sure to breed racism. It is costly. It calls for local police agencies to enforce federal law (although many Utah police agencies have said they will decline to do so), and it provides no money to help with such enforcement. It requires public agencies to screen employees, contractors and the recipients of benefits and yet, again, it provides no funding for this. Local governments already are reeling from a loss of revenue due to the recession. Now comes this burden. The law will make it harder for U.S. Census officials to get an accurate count of Utahns next year. It will make illegal residents unduly suspicious of government officials, even though census workers are forbidden by law to investigate or report crimes. Illegal aliens should be counted along with legal residents. A complete head count will ensure that Utah receives the federal funding it needs to handle its population and that sales-tax receipts are distributed fairly. Ten years ago, the census undercounted Utah Hispanics by an estimated 50,000, which would have been more than enough to give the state a fourth congressional representative. The law places extra burdens on business owners, requiring them to use an E-verify system for which many of them lack training. Elsewhere, this system has been shown to reject legal residents by mistake. The result will be yet another drag on a struggling economy. It will make Utah less safe. Illegal immigrants will be afraid to report crimes because doing so might mean they will be deported. Most importantly, the law seeks to correct problems that don’t exist. A recent Sutherland Institute study found that only 3.9 percent of inmates in county jails in Utah are undocumented, as are less than 5 percent of inmates in state prisons. Illegal immigrants do not commit crimes to a larger degree than others. Most are as law abiding as other Utahns. Crossing the border illegally is a minor offense, on the order of a speeding ticket. A much better approach would have been to set up some sort of system by which these workers could enter and leave the state legally. That is the approach the federal government needs to take. We are astounded that all sides in this debate cannot see the wisdom of a system that would control and monitor the influx of workers across the border, eliminating the crimes committed by immigration traffickers and making it easier to spot and punish the genuine criminals. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals may soon strike down part of an Oklahoma law that mirrors Utah’s new law. Other lawsuits are in the planning stages. Utah could end up paying a heavy toll economically, and in other ways, for passing this law. The best idea would be for lawmakers to begin laying plans to repeal it as soon as possible. Resolved Question: How do people feel about this news editorial over illegals? A sad day for Utah? Deseret News editorial Immigration law is a federal matter. All sides seem to agree on that. But when it comes to whether Utah needs to make up for a lack of will in Washington to deal with it, a lot of folks let emotion and hearsay rule the day. Which is why Utah’s notorious SB81, an immigration bill that promises to harm everyone in the state and that may, to a large extent, be found to be unconstitutional before it gets too old, becomes law today. This law is not compassionate. It promises to pull apart families of undocumented workers who came here seeking a better life and who contribute to the tax base. It turns anyone with brown skin into a suspect and is sure to breed racism. It is costly. It calls for local police agencies to enforce federal law (although many Utah police agencies have said they will decline to do so), and it provides no money to help with such enforcement. It requires public agencies to screen employees, contractors and the recipients of benefits and yet, again, it provides no funding for this. Local governments already are reeling from a loss of revenue due to the recession. Now comes this burden. The law will make it harder for U.S. Census officials to get an accurate count of Utahns next year. It will make illegal residents unduly suspicious of government officials, even though census workers are forbidden by law to investigate or report crimes. Illegal aliens should be counted along with legal residents. A complete head count will ensure that Utah receives the federal funding it needs to handle its population and that sales-tax receipts are distributed fairly. Ten years ago, the census undercounted Utah Hispanics by an estimated 50,000, which would have been more than enough to give the state a fourth congressional representative. The law places extra burdens on business owners, requiring them to use an E-verify system for which many of them lack training. Elsewhere, this system has been shown to reject legal residents by mistake. The result will be yet another drag on a struggling economy. It will make Utah less safe. Illegal immigrants will be afraid to report crimes because doing so might mean they will be deported. Most importantly, the law seeks to correct problems that don’t exist. A recent Sutherland Institute study found that only 3.9 percent of inmates in county jails in Utah are undocumented, as are less than 5 percent of inmates in state prisons. Illegal immigrants do not commit crimes to a larger degree than others. Most are as law abiding as other Utahns. Crossing the border illegally is a minor offense, on the order of a speeding ticket. A much better approach would have been to set up some sort of system by which these workers could enter and leave the state legally. That is the approach the federal government needs to take. We are astounded that all sides in this debate cannot see the wisdom of a system that would control and monitor the influx of workers across the border, eliminating the crimes committed by immigration traffickers and making it easier to spot and punish the genuine criminals. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals may soon strike down part of an Oklahoma law that mirrors Utah’s new law. Other lawsuits are in the planning stages. Utah could end up paying a heavy toll economically, and in other ways, for passing this law. The best idea would be for lawmakers to begin laying plans to repeal it as soon as possible.
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