@climatebill Twitter Updates for 2009-06-27

• RT @1Sky: #FollowFriday @1PercentFTP, @madelinevo, @noimpactman, @brighterplanet, @Foglio, @greendig, @climatebill, @sarahelabance. LOVE! #
• Welcome to the big day, folks! I'll be covering the climate bill from "gavel to gavel" as CSPAN likes to say. #ACES #capandtrade #
• @kate_sheppard so do we know when #ACES is up? Is the current vote even related? #
• RT @TheEcoist House Democrats Narrowly Win Key Test Vote on Climate Bill (AP) #ACES http://bit.ly/NSkYr #
• CSPAN reporter update on #ACES #capandtrade – http://is.gd/1ew1O #
• @alishafowler I'm not that knowledgeable about intl politics, but I think voting it down would tell them we're not ready to act at all in reply to alishafowler #
• Finally got my codec problem worked out for streaming CSPAN on my Mac. Get Flip4fac and stream it through VLC! #ACES #
• @abba_ks I agree. But don't you think we look like fools if we vote this down before the intl climate negotiations? in reply to abba_ks #
• Been looking for this RT @tboggiaGreat summary via @wonkroom of what changed overnight in #ACES http://tinyurl.com/ncekna Good, Bad and Ugly #
• @abba_ks Endless problems. I agree. It's sad, really. in reply to abba_ks #
• #ACES is finally up! Showtime! Waxman is up! #
• Watch the #climatechange bill #ACES debate on the house floor: http://cspan.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx #congress #capandtrade #
• Waxman: There is a remarkable coalition behind this bill: Ag, Enviros, Utilites. #ACES #capandtrade #
• Waxman: Rick Boucher developed ideas that will provide a future for #coal … UGH!? Really!? #ACES #Powershift09 #
• Waxman quotes his usual "less than a postage stamp a day" estimate. #ACES #
• Rp Lucas (R-OK) from the Ag committee is speaking for the republicans. Looks like they didn't get their way in the bill. #ACES #
• RT @1Sky: 1000s of you have called/fax, almost knocked us out! Keep 'em coming for the climate bill: http://bit.ly/GItYB #ACES #climatebill #
• Lucas: Says electric rates will be 90% higher. Oil, gas 58% higher. #ACES #capandtrade #
• Lucas: Why are we doing this? When the rest of the world is doing nothing. I won't let others get rich while we get poorer. #ACES #
• Waxman up again. Yields his time to Rep Markey. #ACES #capandtrade #powershift09 #
• RT @kate_sheppard: Hoyer's office confirms: "several hours on the amendment, motion to recommit and final passage of H.R. 2454." #ACES #
• Rep Markey: This legislation is the most important energy and env. legislation the US has ever seen. #ACES #
• Markey: At it's core, this is a jobs bill. …. Is it? I thought this was about climate change. #ACES #PowerShift09 #
• RT @ejgertz #ACES vote, if it comes, should come around 3:45-4 pm ET #
• @kate_sheppard Are you on the hill? in reply to kate_sheppard #
• Rep Goodlatte (R-VA): Nuclear power, the most CO2-free power we have. #ACES #
• Goodlatte: In shutting down the ability for the Rs and Ds to offer more than 1 amndmt, the speaker has shutdown the democratic process #ACES #
• Rep Boucher (D-VA) is up. Supports the bill. He's a puppet for the coal companies, though. Responsible for the worst amendments. #ACES #
• RT @TreeHugger: Climate Bill Vote is Today: Everything You Need to Know http://tinyurl.com/lbekt7 #
• Boucher: Cost per family will be $175 per year. EPA says $80-110 per year. #ACES #
• Boucher: Coal use under this bill will actually grow. #ACES #powershift09 #
• Boucher: "Let me give you a more practical reason to vote for this bill" … to stop the EPA from having jurisdiction. #ACES #
• Rep Moran (R-KS) – "While the Peterson amndmt improves the bill, the end result is nothing but negative for rural economies" #ACES #
• Moran: "This is a jobs elimination bill." Intl community doesn't have limits on carbon, jobs go over seas. #ACES #
• Rep Engel (D-NY): Talking about flex fuels like he did in committee. Ethanol, methanol and gasoline. #ACES #
• @dhmeiser Thanks for doing all the research on fence-sitters! in reply to dhmeiser #
• Rep Latta (R-OH) – "OH uses 87% coal. This bill will kill jobs in OH" #ACES #
• Latta: "Is China going to comply with what we do? We can't put the American farmer behind the 8-ball" #ACES #
• Yay! Rep Dingell is up. I love him #ACES #
• Dingell: "Actions by the supreme court…makes it critically important that we act, otherwise GHG will be regulated by the EPA" #ACES #
• Rep Conaway (R-TX): "This bill does not do it. It does nothing good. It provides a relatively meaningless photo op in Copenhagen." #ACES #
• RT @nature_org: If US goes to Copenhagen without legislation, chances of a useful international treaty reduced. http://is.gd/1erdm #ACES #
• If you're just turning in, we're covering the HR 2454, #ACES, the climate bill, the #capandtrade bill on the house floor. http://is.gd/1eywn #
• Rep ?? R: We don't listen to the court ruling! "We're the US congress! We tell them what the american people want!" #ACES #
• Apparently Rep DeFazio (D-OR) spoke out against #ACES this morning in favor of #EPA regulation. I agree… But Copenhagen is more impt. #
• Rep Lucas (R-OK): "115 Ag and food groups sent in letters against #ACES" #
• Lucas: This bill will "reduce our competitiveness with other countries" #ACES #
• @grist DeFazios statement this morning. Doesn't seem good. http://is.gd/1eB7n #ACES #congree in reply to grist #
• RT @grist If anyone has updates on how these undecided Reps are voting on #ACES clean energy bill, please let us know! http://bit.ly/cTyIL #
• Rep Waxman is texting while yield his time. #ACES #
• Rep Blunt (R-MS): "The republican alternative is something many dems could support" … "We have 30% of all the coal in the world" #ACES #
• Blunt: If we can put a man on the moon in a decade, we can find a way to use #coal in a way that doesn't pollute. #ACES #
• RT @algore: Climate debate happening on the House floor right now. Call your member of Congress http://bit.ly/VfAt1 #ACES #
• @grist did you see the test vote on #ACES ?? http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll466.xml #
• @ejgertz Hahaha. :) in reply to ejgertz #
• RT @dhmeiser Fax Congress: Strengthen and Pass the Clean Energy Bill! #ACES Just need email and callback # http://is.gd/1exIU #
• Rep Doyle (D-PE): Everyone of my constituents gets electricity from coal. This bill protects rate payers. #ACES #
• Rep Hastings (R-WA): "This bill was written in a fantasy land" w/o huge unemployment. #ACES #
• Rep Rush (D-IL) up now. Environment, jobs, economy, protect ratepayers, green jobs. The usual. #ACES #
• RT @Heritage: new policy paper: Economic Impact of Waxman-Markey #capandtrade http://tr.im/pT6K #
• Rep Rogers: Drops Obama quote about electricity rates skyrocketing. Says his state will pay $500 more per year. #ACES #
• Rep Gingrey (R-GA): The only reduction will be in our GDP. By 10 trillion dollars. Washington can't save this country. #ACES #
• Dems: 44 minutes remaining. Repub; 53 minutes remaining #ACES #powershift09 #capandtrade #
• @1Sky Great to hear! in reply to 1Sky #
• Rep Terry (R-NE): Always with the "cap and tax bill" … If anything it should be called "tax and trade". #ACES #
• Rep Inslee (D-WA): Very passionate. "We believe Americans have the right stuff that we had in the 60s when we went to the moon" #ACES #
• RT @kate_sheppard: American Farm Bureau tells reps. to vote for Peterson amendment but against #ACES as a whole. http://tinyurl.com/lq43pn #
• Inslee: "Will we pay a stamp to save the environment for our kids? YOU BET WE WILL!" #ACES #capandtrade #
• Rep McCotter (R-MI): Zombie-like "Today we consider a bill that thinks the govt can control the weather" #ACES #
• McCotter: "This will bring us to a green economy… A hunter-gatherer society" #ACES #
• Rep Baldwin (D-WI): Actually mentions dangers of climate change and species diversity. Yay! No talk of jobs, finally! #ACES #
• Rep Shimkus (R-IL) is up! I LOVE HIM! He screams into his mic! He brought his coal workers poster board!!! #ACES #
• Shimkus: "1200 miners lost their jobs! What will this do to the avg american." Cap and tax will add .77 to gas prices. #ACES #
• Shimkus: "How dare you do that to my constituents?!" #ACES #capandtrade #
• RT @tomphilpott: Industrial-ag schizophrenia: Farm Bureau sez vote no on Waxman-Markey, vote yes on Peterson amndmt. http://bit.ly/9k33z #
• @kate_sheppard Don't you love him? He's my favorite. :) in reply to kate_sheppard #
• If you're just turning in, we're covering the HR 2454, #ACES, the climate bill, the #capandtrade bill on the house floor. http://is.gd/1eywn #
• RT @kate_sheppard Weiner (D-N.Y.): "Every time we fill our gas tanks… we are helping the tyrants in Iran and Saudia Arabia." #ACES #
• Rep Rohrabacher (R-CA): "Wake up America! The jobs will go to china and the economy will go to hell" Climate change denier. #ACES #
• Rep Butterfield (D-NC): "YOu can call it a cap and tax all you want to… but I say Rs are wrong on this issue" #ACES #
• Rep Blackburn (R-TN): "They're going to tax the air you breath" … Lose 25,600 jobs every year. #ACES #
• If you're just turning in, we're covering the HR 2454, #ACES, the climate bill, the #capandtrade bill on the house floor. http://is.gd/1eywn #
• Rep Cole (R-): … Cole=coal? "There's no good time for a bad idea", Energy tax, 3000 per year per family #ACES #
• Dems have 36 minutes left, Repubs have 46 minutes left. #ACES #
• Summary of Waxman-Markey manager's amendment by @1sky: http://bit.ly/j5HfR New bill will have an extra $13 billion for renewables, etc. #
• Rep Bachus (R-AL): Expert on derivatives. Uh oh. "When you start a clean coal project in China, who pays for it?" Carbon-dee-oxide #ACES #
• Sutton (D-OH): No bill is perfect. "This is a jobs bill"… I ask: Why does our entire world seem to revolve around the economy? #ACES #
• Rep Latham (D-IA): Has a big gift box that says "to: China From: US Congress" Opens it up… Has a hard hat says US Jobs. LOVE IT!!! #ACES #
• Rep Latham: Please, vote no and save our country. #ACES #
• Braley: Every memeber of this congress has to look at their children and grandchildren and answer "where were you?" #ACES #
• Murphy (R-PE): "Let's invest in clean coal. Whoever figures out how to do that is nobel prize material" … Maybe. Just not done yet. #ACES #
• Welch (D-VT): Legitimate concerns from Rs about jobs, economy have been addressed in this bill. "What about cost of not acting?" #ACES #
• Dingell and Waxman are going back and forth about the energy grid. #ACES #
• @ejgertz I'll call the ambulance now. :) in reply to ejgertz #
• RT @ejgertz #ACES drinking game: Drink every time opponent mentions China, India, or Brazil. #
• Rep Deal (R-GA): In spain, they lost 2 jobs for everyone 1 they gained. Disparity in renewable energy portfolio. Nuclear not counted. #ACES #
• @mogmaar Great work! in reply to mogmaar #
• Rep Barton: "We are passing a bill that has a placeholder to be determined later" – Really? Crazy. I do support http://readthebill.org #ACES #
• Repubs now using figure of 2/10ths of a degree of warming. #ACES #
• Barton: If you haven't made your deal yet, come down to the floor!! #ACES #
• Rep Stearns (R-FL): Plays the china card. Well played, sir. Well played. #ACES #
• @thegoodhuman It's like kyoto… Why sign until EVERY other country has signed? Oh wait. We didn't even sign then… #ACES in reply to thegoodhuman #
• Time remaining. Dems 28. Repubs 36. #ACES #
• Rep Cantor (R-VA): We need job creation! #capandtrade abandons this mission. Quotes MIT study (already debunked, I think) #ACES #
• Too bad #ACES has no chance of trending. #
• RT @kate_sheppard Formerly undecided David Scott (D-Ga.) says he's a "yes" vote now. #ACES http://bitly.com/votedayticker #
• Rep Rangel (D-NY): Seems bored with himself. Waxman left the room and yielded his time to Rangel. Chairwomen left too. #
• Rep Radanovich (R-CA): "Put this bill where it belongs! In the recycling bin!" … It is 1,200 pages.. Let's pass it first, though. #ACES #
• RT @EnvDefenseFund #ACES will lead to jobs. Somebody run this graphic up to the Hill? – http://bit.ly/ZuCGO #
• Rep Biggert (R-IL): .77 gas increase, nuclear, "arbitrary penalty on oil and gas" … Arbitrary? I think the Repub math is arbitrary. #ACES #
• Be right back folks. #followfriday for #ACES @thingsbreak @1sky @kate_sheppard @bradplumer @ejgertz @dhmeiser @Populista #
• @PowerShift09 Link is broken. in reply to PowerShift09 #
• Rep Camp (R-MI): "If everyone else jumps off a cliff, will you?" … Reminds me of my parents… Ugh. #ACES #
• Blumenauer up. An OR Rep!! Woot! Wearing his bike pin. Love him! #ACES #
• @focusthenation Woot woot! I love him. :) in reply to focusthenation #
• Rep Linder (R-GA): Using Einstein and Newton to support climate change deniers. #ACES #
• RT @kate_sheppard CSPAN is guessing final vote somewhere between 6 and 7 p.m. tonight. #ACES #
• Rep Ryan (R-WI): "This bill is not about cost and benefits" Quotes 2/10ths of a degree non-sense. #ACES #
• @pkelly99 The cost of not acting will be many orders of magnitude larger during our children's generation. #ACES in reply to pkelly99 #
• The acting speaker is really strict on time limits. #ACES #
• Rep Brown-Waite (R-FL): "This bill should be called the 'let's send more jobs to China' bill" … This meme is getting old. #ACES #
• RT @current_green Music Break: Michael Jackson's Earth Video http://bit.ly/fkuMz (first time seeing this!) RIP. #
• Wearing my @PowerShift09 shirt. I miss the good times from spontaneous march to the WH: http://is.gd/1eJzq #ACES #powershift09 #
• Ryan (D-OH): We already tried the Repub bill. And it brought gas to $4 a gallon. #ACES #
• It's scary how united the Rs are. They really must get memos every morning. They all echo each other perfectly. No original thought. #ACES #
• Waxman and Markey are MIA on the house floor. Rounding up votes? Let's hope. #ACES #
• Waxman in colloquy with Grayson (Florida rep) regarding hurricanes. Grayson asking for earmark $ — hurricane forecast center. #ACES #
• These scripted colloquy's are weird. What's the purpose? #ACES #
• Dems have 28 minutes left. Repubs have 30 minutes left. #ACES #
• Barton: "I planted some trees on my grandpas farm 30 years ago. I hope those are covered under the bill" #ACES #
• Rep Shadegg (R-AZ) is a climate change denier. Falsely saying that more and more scientists are coming out against climate change. #ACES #
• @peebles Ah. I guess that makes sense. If it is on record, it gets easier to interpret. Cool stuff. #ACES in reply to peebles #
• Oh boy. Walden (R-OR) is up. Woody biomass? We'll see. #ACES #
• Walden: 309 pages were submitted at 2 in the morning. #ACES #
• Walden: "17.9% higher electricity costs in Oregon." Against the bill. #ACES #
• @aaanimals A little of each. He said it wasn't warming. Then he said it wasn't human caused. in reply to aaanimals #
• Time left. Dems: 23 — Repubs 22. …. Time goes very slow in the house. #ACES #
• I'm sure a think tank thought up that strat. RT @kate_sheppard Democrats need more graphs and props. GOP clearly winning in that dept. #ACES #
• Join me in supporting @MaryBonoMack for being the only Repub who voted for #ACES during committee. Support science! #ACES #
• Rep Gohmert is begging for a physical copy of the 300 page managers amendment. #ACES #
• Rep Barton: "Is there somewhere physically a copy of the piece of legislation that we're voting on?" #ACES #
• Rep Barton: "If a bill for which there is no copy is passed by this body, can that bill be voted on by the Senate." #ACES #
• Rep Barton: "Then where is it?" … Speaker: "It's. At. The. Desk!" #ACES #
• Epic win! Markey: The 300 "missing pages" is on the rules committee website. You can see it right now? http://is.gd/1eNRk #ACES #
• Now we're getting into stalling tactics regarding the location of the 300 pages managers amendment. #ACES #
• Rep Bilbray (R-CA): AGAINST CLEAN COAL! Wow. Awesome. He thinks the bill is "late and short" based on UN science. #ACES #
• Woot woot! Blumenauer is up again! Go Oregon! "It's strange that the debate boils down to the Rs not being able to access the website" #ACES #
• Blumenauer calls out the repubs for citing the MIT study. The author asked the repubs to stop misrepresenting it. #ACES #
• Wow. Rep Poe (R-TX) is almost as loud as Shimkus. #ACES #
• Way to stand up for the MIT study, @repblumenauer!! #ACES #
• Why are there four grade school girls sitting behind the repubs? #ACES #
• Rep Gohmert: "This bill gives you assistance if you (dems) lose your job" #ACES #
• Doggett (D-TX): He was a "likely no vote" but he switched to a yes because the Repubs are denying global warming. AWESOME! #ACES #
• RT: @repoweramerica – Hey Delaware, Rep. Mike Castle is still on fence — tell him to vote YES now — 877-9-REPOWER (877-9-737-6937) #ACES #
• Rep ???: "I ask that the house rise for a minute of silence for those that will lose their job." #ACES #
• @alishafowler I wonder what changed his mind. in reply to alishafowler #
• Pence: "We don't have the votes to stop bill." (looks to the camera) "You do! Call your congressmen right now!!" #ACES #
• If you're just turning in, we're covering the HR 2454, #ACES, the climate bill, the #capandtrade bill on the house floor. http://is.gd/1eywn #
• I love Waxman. :) RT @thingsbreak 13 min of #TheMustacheOfJustice #ACES #
• RT @david_h_roberts: Barton referencing "suppressed" EPA report. BS story, see: http://bit.ly/eFdre #ACES #
• Rep Forbes is offering the repub amendment in the nature of a substitute. Their "all of the above solution". Claims it's bipartisan. #ACES #
• From http://is.gd/1eRwm — 100% of pro-ACES calls are in-district. 15% of anti-ACES calls are in-district. Voters vs coal/oil lobby. #ACES #
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• Debating the Republican amendment in the nature of a substitute. #ACES #
• RT @kate_sheppard Hill staffer says office calls are strongly against passing #ACES, but emails are strongly for.http://tinyurl.com/lkgpwk #
• RT @iescience: Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) making perhaps the most rational and inspiring speech of today's House debate. #ACES #
• I just figured out what #tcot tag means: Top conservatives on twitter. Should we use #tlot ?? #ACES #
• Hoyer just had a wonderful speech about #ACES and why they members should vote against the republican substitute. #
• There's no way the replacement is going to pass. Can't we just move on to the real vote? #ACES #
• Floor vote will likely happen in an hour. #ACES #capandtrade #
• All of the repubs keep asking "will this bill create reductions in China?" The silliness of politics makes me sad. #ACES #
• @grist Indeed. It's so close. I'm more nervous than during the committee hearing. #ACES #
• Republicans are upset about the managers amendment being passed at 2am. I support that, at least. http://readthebill.org #ACES #
• Boehner doesn't understand why old growth forests relate to climate change. Yikes. #ACES #
• Waxman tries to see how long Boehner's "magic minute" will last. 20 minutes so far. Chair allows him to continue. Filibuster? #ACES #
• Rep @JohnBoehner answers every quest with "I can't tell because it was submitted at 3:09 am" I wonder how long he will draw this out #ACES #
• @cherokeesita just search for #ACES and you'll see it all. in reply to cherokeesita #
• Rep @JohnBoehner is literally going page by page through the bill. It's taken him 20 minutes to get to page 47. #ACES #
• I say we we start a drinking game. 1 drink for every time @JohnBoehner says "3:09 am" #ACES #
• @tboggia I'm new to congressional politics. I didn't know a congressional filibuster was possible. #ACES in reply to tboggia #
• @samboykin What happens if I cry when everyone leaves the house in an hour because he's still talking? #ACES in reply to samboykin #
• Can anyone confirm whether or not a congressional filibuster has ever happened before? #ACES #capandtrade #
• @kate_sheppard Pondering vodka? How long have the house repubs been waiting to bust out this tool? #ACES in reply to kate_sheppard #
• @grist I mean a house filibuster using the minority "magic minute" #ACES #
• @david_h_roberts Do you think this is a new standard? Will we see this on health care? in reply to david_h_roberts #
• Boehner still filibuster-ing. We're on page 155 of 300. I support reading the bill, but he just wants to delay the vote. #ACES #
• @ddefranza Yes. I do mean house. But the debate limit isn't being upheld. #ACES in reply to ddefranza #
• Boehner: "I've heard of blackmail, but now I know what greenmail really is" #ACES … UGH. #
• RT @samishamieh Boehner's favorite movie: Kill Bill. #ACES #
• Boehner is on page 260! Almost to the end! #ACES #
• Boehner is done reading the 300 page amendment. Finally done! To an applause from his side of the aisle. #ACES #
• Waxman is bashing the republicans for using one hour for 2.5 minutes "time" #ACES #
• Pelosi is up! #ACES #
• Polosi: "remember the four words that this legislation means: JOBS JOBS JOBS and JOBS" #ACES #
• Vote on the republican substitute amendment. 15 minute recorded vote. #ACES #
• @KirinKennedy REALLY?! in reply to KirinKennedy #
• @repblumenauer Thanks for your strong support. Myself and others in the UO student government are watching CSPAN closely right now #ACES in reply to repblumenauer #
• RT @ejgertz: Steny Hoyer's speech about #ACES, today: http://bit.ly/MFiJH #
• Nays have surpassed the Ays for passing the Republican #ACES substitute amendment. Good deal. #capandtrade #
• Okay. Voting for the substitute amendment is done. On to final passage. This is it! Recorded vote! 15 minute vote! #ACES #powershift09 #
• The votes are pouring in. Nothings to do now but watch the CSPAN vote ticker. #ACES #capandtrade #
• Vote count is looking good so far. 202/185 is the current tally. 8 minutes of voting left. #ACES #
• @kate_sheppard Don't worry. We've got this. in reply to kate_sheppard #
• RT @kate_sheppard: Watch Doggett dismiss R's as the flat earth society, change vote to "yes": http://bit.ly/12IOZH #ACES #
• 2120 ayes, 203 nays. 18 no votes. I'm sure it'll pass. But I'm anxious. #ACES #capandtrade #powershift09 #
• Woot! It passed. 220 / 208 with 6 votes left!! #ACES #
• Times up! 219 ays vs 212 nays, 3 no votes. The American clean energy and securities act of 2009 has passed the house! #ACES #
• Now for the real question: Does #ACES have a chance of passing the senate? Those in the room with me say no. What do you think? #
• @david_h_roberts I was wondering the same thing. in reply to david_h_roberts #
• Final vote on #ACES 219-211. 8 repubs for, 44 dems against, 3 no votes. http://is.gd/1f5OU #
• Final vote on #ACES 219-212. 8 repubs for, 44 dems against, 3 no votes. http://is.gd/1f5OU #
• @dechristopher Fair point, my friend. But it doesn't have a chance if it doesn't pass. I think we all know the answer is no. But it's a step in reply to dechristopher #