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Senate Environment and Public Works

EPW ranking member James Inhofe and Chairman Barbara Boxer

Climate Change Debate Heats Up

October 13, 2009

This time it’s for keeps. Unlike last year, when the dress-rehearsal debate on global warming sputtered to a halt on the Senate floor without a single amendment vote, both sides are prepping for a fight with full knowledge that the chamber could actually pass a bill limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

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Lobbyists Tread Over Partisan Minefield

October 13, 2009

While the health care issue may be dominating Capitol Hill, it’s all about climate change in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.


Klobuchar Applies Life’s Lessons on Subcommittee

October 13, 2009

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) was an attorney in private practice in 1995 when her insurance company forced her to leave the hospital one day after giving birth to her daughter. “She was very sick, she couldn’t swallow and I was kicked out of the hospital at 24 hours with no sleep and thinking she was going to die,” Klobuchar recalled in an interview last week.


Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Through the Ages

October 13, 2009

The following is a look back at the history of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.
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The clear expectation is Congress will get very little done this election year. But what does get accomplished, at least in the high-profile areas, will largely be the handiwork of an elite group of staffers — who combine policy expertise, political acumen and the trust of their lawmaker bosses to drive much of the legislative agenda.

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