President Obama also sees the disaster as another reason to pass cap and trade legislation.
Indeed, the effort to pass cap and trade legislation may be the best financed political cause in American history.
Their product will be more competitive if we can pass cap and trade.
The only Obama priority it didn't pass was cap-and-trade, which was killed by Senate Democrats.
Even before the setback in Massachusetts, Mr Obama saw this as one way to cut carbon emissions if the Senate failed to pass a cap-and-trade bill.
Congress, including Democrats, wouldn't pass his cap-and-trade legislation.
With representatives on both sides of the aisle now recognizing the importance of national investments in clean, American energy sources, new opportunities for bipartisan progress on clean energy may be possible where efforts to pass contentious cap and trade legislation have repeatedly failed.
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"Governor Cuomo led the fight to pass the tax cap in order to stop skyrocketing property tax increases on homeowners and businesses, and that's exactly what it's done, " spokesman Richard Azzopardi said.
Meanwhile British Conservative MEP Vicky Ford feared mobile phone operators might pass the cost of the cap onto domestic consumers, by increasing their bills.
One of the policy positions in the leaked policy paper in Valor is supposedly a move to limit to the growth of federal operating expenses and pass a bill that would also cap the annual growth of spending on salaries of civil servants, namely politicians in the capital, which historically tend to give themselves double digit raises.
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The massive stealth tax on energy called "cap and trade" is not a slam dunk to pass.
The measure comes as Washington looks ahead to another showdown over must-pass legislation to increase the government's borrowing cap.
The only way we can put the brakes on them is to pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution that limits spending cap 20% to start with and a super majority to change it or raise taxes.
This would make it much easier for Mr Obama to pass his two big domestic proposals: heath-care reform and a cap-and-trade system for curbing carbon emissions.
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