Incoming GOP House To Eliminate Global Warming Cmte., Though Sensenbrenner Wants To Save It

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans plan to eliminate a global warming committee created by Democrats despite an attempt by the panel's top Republican to preserve it.

Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, in line to be speaker in the new Congress, said disbanding the panel is part of the Republican pledge to cut waste in government.

"The global warming committee doesn't need to be a separate committee," Boehner said. "We believe the Science Committee is more than capable of handling this issue, and in the process we'll save several million dollars."

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican who was in line to become chairman, announced the committee's fate at a hearing Wednesday. Sensenbrenner had urged the committee's preservation so Republicans could use it to rein in the Obama administration's efforts to curb global warming.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/01/AR2010120105350.html

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1. Since the ranking GOP member of that committee believes that

"God won't allow the earth to be destroyed" because of a promise to Noah in the bible, it will probably be no real loss - unless the science committee is composed of similar assholes.

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