House climate panel axed

GOP To Planet: Drop Dead; Axes House Climate Panel
Rep. James Sensenbrenner (right) of Wisconsin says Republicans will eliminate the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Committee Chairman Ed Markey (left)  (D-Mass.) called Wednesday’s hearing to give witnesses a chance to warn of the perils of Climate Change before the GOP launches efforts next year to roll back the Obama Administration’s climate policies. Sensenbrenner, a vocal Climate Change skeptic, had pushed to keep the panel alive to Probe the White HouseR

Snap! GOP To Kill House Climate Alarmism Panel
Republicans will eliminate the House committee created by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to highlight the threat of Climate Change, Representative James Sensenbrenner, the top Republican on the panel, said today. I actually think this is a bad move. Instead of shutting the panel down, the Republicans should keep it operating, and, instead of ultra-partisan hacks with big monetary and prestige stakes testifying, they should allow those who don’t agree to appear, as well as set up Debates between the ...

House GOP Ends Climate-Change Committee Because Its Not Real
Because Republicans won a majority in the House in the 2008 Elections, Climate Change no longer exists. Hooray! Jim Sensenbrenner announced that Republicans will be getting rid of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming when they take over, so it held its last hearing today so everyone could sign each other’s climate-change committee yearbooks or whatever. So why does this very important issue no longer need special congressional attention? It turns out global warmin...

GOP To Planet: Drop Dead; Axes House Climate Panel
Rep. James Sensenbrenner (right) of Wisconsin says Republicans will eliminate the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Committee Chairman Ed Markey (left)  (D-Mass.) called Wednesday’s hearing to give witnesses a chance to warn of the perils of Climate Change before the GOP launches efforts next year to roll back the Obama Administration’s climate policies. Sensenbrenner, a vocal Climate Change skeptic, had pushed to keep the panel alive to Probe the White HouseR

Republicans cut House climate panel
The special committee set up by Democrats in 2007 to study energy and climate issues will disappear in the next Congress, its top Republican said Wednesday. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), the ranking member of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, said that this morning's hearing by the panel would be the last. Sensenbrenner confirmed that Republicans will let the committee, which was established by House Democrats after they retook the majority in 2007, wou...

House GOP Ends Climate-Change Committee Because Its Not Real
Because Republicans won a majority in the House in the 2008 Elections, Climate Change no longer exists. Hooray! Jim Sensenbrenner announced that Republicans will be getting rid of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming when they take over, so it held its last hearing today so everyone could sign each other’s climate-change committee yearbooks or whatever. So why does this very important issue no longer need special congressional attention? It turns out global warmin...

House Republicans nix global warming committee
When the 112th Congress convenes in January, it will be without the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. "The global warming committee doesn't need to be a separate committee," Boehner said. "We believe that the Science Committee is more than capable of handling this issue, and in the process, we'll save several million dollars." The committee, which was established by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and approved by the House in the spring of 2007, was chaired ...

Republicans Eliminate Climate Change Panel
(Credit: CBS) Republicans will eliminate a House panel designed to explore issues related to Climate Change, incoming House Speaker John Boehner announced on Wednesday, arguing that the committee is unnecessary and that its eradication would cut government waste. "The Global Warming committee doesn't need to be a separate committee," Boehner told reporters. "We believe the Science Committee is more than capable of handling this issue, and in the process we'll save several million dollars." Th...

Pelosis Global Warming Panel gets the axe
House Republicans will scrap the committee set up by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to investigate Global Warming, the panel’s top Republican announced Wednesday. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) made official what many had already expected - the GOP majority will axe the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, which Pelosi created in 2007. “This hearing will be the last of the select committee,” Sensenbrenner announced. Committee Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) cal...

House GOP Scraps Climate Change Committee
Nick Wing at the Huffington Post reports: The new soon-to-be Republican Congress is so unconcerned with Global Warming that their leader, Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner, has announced that they’re throwing an entire House committee dedicated to the topic out the window. The Select Committee on Global Warming, created by Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2007, was created as a forum to debate the latest developments on Climate Change issues and research, but Republican leaders claimed that it was ...

Cleaning House
Cleaning HouseThursday, December 2nd, 2010 Politico: The House Democrats’ prized Global Warming committee died quietly on Wednesday. It was four years old. Created in 2007 by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to draw attention to the causes and effects of Climate Change, the committee didn’t have much of a chance to survive the upcoming Republican takeover. Wednesday, the axe fell. “We have pledged to save Taxpayers’ money by reducing waste and duplication in Congress,” s

Republicans kill House global warming committee
WASHINGTON — Republicans in the House of Representatives have decided to eliminate a Global Warming committee created by Democrats, despite an attempt by the panel's senior Republican to preserve it. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, who was in line to become chairman, announced the committee's fate at a hearing Wednesday. Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner, later confirmed the decision, calling the Select Committee on Energy Independence a waste of money. Sen...

House GOP Eliminating Climate Change Committee
Members of the House of Representatives will not be pondering Global Warming on  Speaker John A. Boehner’s watch. Republicans plan to eliminate the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, which was created by the current speaker, Nancy Pelosi, in 2007 to examine Climate Change and press for possible caps on Carbon Dioxide emissions. Climate change matters are overseen by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, as well as the Natural Resources Committee; the select ...

GOP To Kill Pelosis Global Warming Cmte
From a tear-stained New York Times: Republicans Killing Climate Committee By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Published: December 1, 2010 Republicans plan to eliminate the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, which was created in 2007 by the current speaker, Nancy Pelosi, to examine Climate Change and press for possible caps on Carbon Dioxide emissions. "Possible caps on Carbon Dioxide emissions"? Ms. Pelosi herself said that ‘Cap and Trade’ was "t...

Bye-Bye Globaloney Panel
One of Nancy Pelosi's pet projects will die with her Speakership:Republicans will eliminate the House committee created by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to highlight the threat of Climate Change, Representative James Sensenbrenner, the top Republican on the panel, said today. In one of her first acts as speaker in 2007, Pelosi, a California Democrat, created the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming to draw attention to climate-change science and showcase how a cap on carbon ...

GOP moves quickly to kill climate-change panel
WASHINGTON — Republicans will eliminate the House committee created by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to highlight the threat of Climate Change, Representative James Sensenbrenner, the top Republican on the panel, said yesterday. In one of her first acts as speaker in 2007, Pelosi, a California Democrat, created the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming to draw attention to climate-change science and showcase how a cap on Carbon Dioxide need not be a threat to economic gr...

US house dismantles climate committee
AFP US President Barack Obama's Republican foes in the House of Representatives say they are disbanding the chamber's committee on battling Global Warming, calling it a waste of money. Democrats immediately assailed what they branded the "very disappointing" decision to dismantle the Select Committee on Global Warming, which did not have the power to approve Legislation. "We have pledged to save Taxpayers' money by reducing waste and duplication in Congress," a spokesman for John Boehner, the...

House Republicans to axe Dems global warming committee (Daily Caller)
House Republicans will dissolve the special committee set up by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to study Global Warming, they said Wednesday. “We have pledged to save Taxpayers’ money by reducing waste and duplication in Congress. The Select Committee on Global Warming — which was created to provide a political forum to promote Washington Democrats’ job-killing national energy tax — was a clear example, and it will not continue in the 112th Congress,” said Michael Stee...

Dana dinosaur flatulence Rohrabacher vies for House Science chair to put global warming on trial
When the anti-science crowd first took over in the Gingrich Congress, I had the pleasure of testifying in front of Dana Rohrabacher’s House subcommittee three times. The former Reagan Speechwriter is a garrulous and affable politician, but a hard-core and implacable denier — so dead set against anything that smacks of climate, that he worked hard to shut down every applied Clean Energy program at the Department of Energy.  Heck, he helped zero out the urban heat island mitigation ...

Republicans pull the plug on Pelosi's global warming committee : SFGate: Politics Blog
0 It was only four years old, but on Wednesday, the House committee that Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi established to study Global Warming died quietly on Capitol Hill. The fatal blow was delivered by Republicans, who are scrapping the panel -- known as the Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming -- as part of a reorganization of the House of Representatives, which will be under GOP control next year. Michael Steel, a spokesman for the incoming House Majority Leader, Re...

Pelosis Climate Panel to Die a Quick Death
The good news keeps trickling in. The latest - when Nancy Pelosi took control of the House of Representatives she created the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Now that she’s been demoted by the voters, her little committee is going to die a quick death. Republicans, who won control of the House in the Nov. 2 election, have opposed legislative efforts to regulate Carbon Emissions as a tax on energy. When the panel convened today, [Rep. James] Sensen...

Pelosi Climate Panel Dies in Republican Sweep of House
Republicans will eliminate the House committee created by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to highlight the threat of Climate Change, Representative James Sensenbrenner , the top Republican on the panel, said today....

Republicans pull the plug on Pelosi's global warming committee
0 It was only four years old, but on Wednesday, the House committee that Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi established to study Global Warming died quietly on Capitol Hill. The fatal blow was delivered by Republicans, who are scrapping the panel -- known as the Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming -- as part of a reorganization of the House of Representatives, which will be under GOP control next year. Michael Steel, a spokesman for the incoming House Majority Leader, Re...

Critic of Science Vies to Lead House Science Panel
A race is on for the chairmanship of the House Science Committee, but whatever the outcome, the post will clearly be held by a staunch opponent of mandatory caps on the emissions that contribute to Global Warming. By order of seniority, Ralph Hall of Texas, is first in line to lead the science committee. But seniority does not automatically confer chairmanship, according to Republican Caucus rules, and on Monday, Dana Rohrabacher of California appeared before the House Republican steering commit...

House Republicans kill climate change committee
Stumble This! WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama's Republican foes in the House of Representatives said Wednesday they were disbanding the chamber's committee on battling Global Warming, calling it a waste of money. Democrats immediately assailed what they branded the "very disappointing" decision to dismantle the Select Committee on Global Warming, which did not have the power to approve Legislation. "We have pledged to save Taxpayers' money by reducing waste and duplication in Congr...