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Edited on Thu Dec-09-10 02:44 PM by wiggs
House committees.
Wonder if Tea Party, Palin, Fox, dem leaders, Obama, Pelosi, etc will comment on whether or not these guys will be doing the work of the people or of industry. Tom Delay, Dick Cheney, George Bush would be proud of these appointees. What exactly is the lesson they said they learned from the disastrous Bush administration?
There is not only political ground to be gained here, but it would be a service to the public and to RW supporters to have this discussion
...Rep Hal Rogers will be Appropriations Committee chair. He is nicknamed Prince of Pork for his abuse of earmarking and getting pet projects for his state
...Fred Upton will be Energy and Commerce Committee chair (narrowly beating BP apologist and ranking member Joe Barton who remains on the committee). He will oppose greenhouse gas regulation and net neutrality. His LCV rating is 44 which among republicans is astronomic. Barton and Upton will oppose regulation of extremely harmful fracturing processing for natural gas. Barton is in the Grover Norquist school of government and his League of Conservation Voters rating is 0%.
...Ed Whitfield will be chair of the energy and environment subcommittee. The list of his anti-choice, anti-stem cell, pro energy industry, anti-environment votes is long and extreme. His League of Conservation Voters rating is 13%.
...Ed Hall will be the Science and Technology chair. He considers climate change unproven and has a 0% rating with League of Conservation Voters, and frighteningly is considered better than Rohrbacher, also on the committee for the gop.
...The ranking gop member on the oversight committee, Braun, considers climate change a hoax.
All told, 67 members of congress have a 0% or single digit rating from League of Conservation Voters. Think this represents mainstream thinking? Or does it represent energy and polluter interests? All these guys should be kept a mile away from positions of environmental power.
We should keep updating committee chair appointments and expose who they are working for.
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