Wednesday, August 01, 2007

The 888 Tablets   [Iain Murray]

Speaker Pelosi has released the text of the New Direction for Energy Independence, National Security, Really Good Eggs and Consumer Protection Act (I snuck something else in there - can you tell?). It weighs in at a table-breaking 888 pages. I'll be back when I've finished reading it in a few months (Harry Potter this isn't). Not sure how legislators are supposed to reach a conclusion on this by the time they're supposed to vote on it on Friday, but perhaps that isn't how legislation works these days. Vote first, ask questions later.

One silver lining peeks out. Title VI, from Henry Waxman and the Government Oversight Committee, includes a provision that would require that federal agencies reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 2 per cent per year beginning in 2010 and reach ZERO EMISSIONS by 2050. Sure, the Republicans talked about downsizing government, but Waxman and Pelosi seem actually to be pursuing radical steps to accomplish it.

08/01 04:27 PMShare