Statement from EPW Minority and Majority Staffers on GOP Markup Obstruction
The EPW Republicans have released this statement:
“The taxpayers expect us to know what this 1,000-page bill costs before we start voting on it,” the statement read. “They will only know this if we have a full economic analysis of how Kerry-Boxer affects them. This bill threatens Americans with trillions of dollars in higher energy taxes and millions of lost jobs. Yet as EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson admitted this week, EPA has ‘not run the full economic modeling.’ We cannot move forward in the legislative process if we don’t have a complete understanding of this bill.”
The EPW Democrats have responded with this statement:
“Senator Boxer believes that it is in the best interests of the American people for Republicans and Democrats to work together toward independence from foreign oil, toward protecting our children from pollution, and toward creation of millions of clean energy jobs,” Rafle wrote in an e-mail. “Therefore, she urges the Republicans to rethink their decision, and to join us at the opening of the markup on Tuesday morning.”
