JK on the floor right now

[Inuca]

The Murkowski resolution. Missed the beginning, but he seems on fire.

[Inuca]

1. Forgot to mention

Glasses :-)

[beachmom]

2. Okay, he definitely is not typing his own tweets.

A new John Kerry tweet just hit at the same time he was speaking (about Murkowski amendment).

David Roberts is live tweeting Senate debate:

http://twitter.com/drgrist

Kerry: EPA's enforcement of Clean Air & Clean Water Acts has been of overwhelming benefit to public. Now polluters trying to block them.
5 minutes ago via TweetDeck

Kerry: Murky supporters are drawing absurd caricature of EPA. Agency's approach to GHGs is thoughtful, careful; public supports it.
6 minutes ago via TweetDeck

Kerry: we're told "Congress needs more time." I've been meeting w/ colleagues for a year - same ppl pushing Murky have avoided those talks!
less than a minute ago via TweetDeck


Kerry: everyone understands what this battle is really about. It's about removing legal foundation of the recent fuel economy agreement.
less than 10 seconds ago via TweetDeck

Kerry: just because you don't like the judgment of the Roberts Supreme Court doesn't mean you can ignore it. Rule of law much?
2 minutes ago via TweetDeck

NobleFreshEnerg RT @afreedma: Sen. Kerry speaking now on Senate floor, reminding Sens. that Congress made law that allows EPA to regulate CO2.

Kerry: the people pushing this resolution are the same people who have fought all attempts at energy reform for YEARS.
1 minute ago via TweetDeck

Kerry: Supreme Court found that GHGs fit "unambiguously" under Clean Air Act. All major heath groups oppose Murky. It's about public health.
less than a minute ago via TweetDeck

Kerry: Murky resolution *permanently* prevents EPA from *ever* dealing w/ GHGs. Flies directly in face of Supreme Court ruling.
less than a minute ago via TweetDeck

Kerry: this is a great hypocrisy test. How many of these "leave it to Congress" people will vote for it when Congress tries?
2 minutes ago via TweetDeck

Reply Retweet Kerry: "Bureaucracy" has nothing to do with it. Congress spoke: it passed the Clean Air Act. Supreme Court said it applied to GHGs.
3 minutes ago via TweetDeck

[Inuca]

3. :-(

Sorry for the disappointment.

[Inuca]

7. Thanks for these

Joined but completely inactive, one of these days I;ll have to figure out this tweeting thingee.

Jay Rockefeller up after Coburn finishes. On republican time (:-(, I kind of like Rockefeller).

I am semi-listening online, trying ot work some easy stuff. I only watched JK. And I'll try to watch Rockefelller who just started now.

[Mass]

4. I had not seen Kerry that angry in a long time. Happy to see that.

[Inuca]

5. Very selfish of you

Seriously now, yes, he is angry. Outraged is maybe an even better fitting word.

[beachmom]

6. I can't watch the TV & am just following David Robert's tweets.

Maybe it'll be on the c-span website later on.

[beachmom]

8. Ugh, ugh, ugh.

So far all 41 GOPers are going to vote aye. Plus:

Rockefeller, Bayh, Landrieu, Ben Nelson, Pryor, Lincoln.

All the focus on Lincoln, and look her colleague from Arkansas voted the same way. Sigh.

Okay, I think that's the show.

47 - 53 it is defeated.

It also shows that the Kerry/Lieberman bill won't pass. We need 60, and now we can see we have nowhere near that.

[ProSense]

9. Kerry's statement

here with a link to the video.

Damn he was pissed.

[beachmom]

10. Thank you!!!! I'm going to listen now.

Good speech, but he didn't sound that mad to me. Just making his case very well.

[karynnj]

11. It seems to me that is always the case

even when he responded to Allard's attack on him on the Senate floor.

[karynnj]

12. The CSM has an article saying this is good for Kerry's bill

(far more optimist than I was)

The defeat – 47 votes to 53 – was a boost for supporters of comprehensive energy-climate legislation. Sens. John Kerry (D) of Massachusetts and Joseph Lieberman (I) of Connecticut have floated such legislation, but it won't be considered until next month

“The Senate made the right decision today but the big question is what comes now,” Senators Kerry and Lieberman said in a joint statement. “Many supporters of the Murkowski resolution argued passionately that climate change is real but that addressing it is a job for Congress not the EPA. We hope they will now engage with us ....”

<snip>
"Today's vote provided two meaningful insights into prospects for climate legislation," Kevin Book, an energy analyst at ClearView Energy Partners, a Washington energy-policy consulting firm, wrote in an e-letter. In the vote result, he wrote, was the kernel of a "pro-drilling, pro-safety compromise that provides political ‘containment’ of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill."

In turn, he writes, such a compromise bill could win support from coal-state Democrats, especially those that voted against the Murkowski measure. They and "other green-leaning Republicans may find themselves with the opportunity to negotiate even greater provisions on behalf of their constituents in return for offering the decisive votes in support of passage."

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0610/Resolution-on-greenhouse-gases-fails-could-boost-energy-bill