NPR: Energy Bill Vote Blocked in Senate

Energy Bill Vote Blocked in Senate

It seems that Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid's call for Senate presidential candidates to return home to vote on the energy bill didn't help him much in the end.

The 53-42 total falls far short of the 60 votes needed to to invoke cloture and bring the bill to a vote. Yesterday the House passed a similar measure, over the threat of a veto by President Bush, that raises automobile fuel-efficiency standards for the first time in more than three decades and require increased use of renewable energy sources to generate electricity.

It was the renewable energy provision of the bill that doomed it to failure. NPR's Debbie Elliot reported on Republican, and even some Democratic, opposition to these measures on Thursday. It's likely that a new version of the bill, without the renewable energy sections, will be presented to the Senate on Tuesday.

3:19 PM ET | 12- 7-2007 | permalink

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We shouldn't accept a weaker version of this bill, 2191 without renewable energy or fuel effifiency standards that are past due; keep the provision in remission, for the sake of dirty energy collusion from a dirty administration so that we needn't self-destruct at Bali with Kyoto! Don't cave !

Sent by judi Merl | 4:30 PM ET | 12-07-2007

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