White House Energy Session Changes No Minds
By JOHN M. BRODER
NYT
WASHINGTON — The senators who emerged from a White House meeting with President Obama on energy policy on Tuesday made no effort to paper over the large differences that remain between them.
Democrats continued to insist on putting some sort of price on greenhouse gas emissions; Republicans continued to insist that to do so would be to impose a tax that would smother the economy.
“We have to take a national energy tax off the table,” said Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee.
“There is no energy tax,” said Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, sponsor of a bill that would significantly raise the cost of greenhouse gas pollution.
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NYT
WASHINGTON — The senators who emerged from a White House meeting with President Obama on energy policy on Tuesday made no effort to paper over the large differences that remain between them.
Democrats continued to insist on putting some sort of price on greenhouse gas emissions; Republicans continued to insist that to do so would be to impose a tax that would smother the economy.
“We have to take a national energy tax off the table,” said Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee.
“There is no energy tax,” said Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, sponsor of a bill that would significantly raise the cost of greenhouse gas pollution.
(More here.)
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