Some reckoned this was a compromise to win Republican support for Mr Obama's climate-change bill.
In late June, a White House-backed climate change bill passed 219-212 in the House, with virtually no Republican support.
And, of course, it wants to see any climate change bill Congress might consider be favorable to natural gas.
But does that mean until a new president signs a climate change bill?
Over 40 of them broke ranks in the House over the climate-change bill.
Some observers guessed that he was trying to smooth the way for a climate-change bill by offering Republicans a present.
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His proposed climate-change bill, whose chances of becoming law before the mid-terms look slim, would be much improved if boondoggles were removed from it.
In late June, he met with a bipartisan group of senators at the White House to discuss passing an energy and climate change bill this year.
On Tuesday the government will launch its Climate Change Bill, which puts the government's long-term goal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60% by 2050 into statute.
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All this makes it highly unlikely, by the way, that there will be any progress on a climate-change bill in time for December's global meeting in Copenhagen.
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So hot, you might say that the House is creating a special new committee to highlight the problem and senators are introducing one climate change bill after another.
Can he get the Senate to pass a slimmed-down climate change bill so he can work in a conference committee to get more of his energy priorities done?
To distance himself from such policies when running for the Senate in 2010, Mr Manchin produced an ad in which he took a rifle to a proposed climate-change bill.
And B, does the President need, does the administration need Senate passage of a climate change bill to seek a deal within the confines of the U.N. climate change talks?
But the administration opposes mandatory emissions targets, and there is probably not enough time to get a meaningful climate change bill to the president's desk by the end of the year.
Getting a climate-change bill through Congress will be hard.
The Waxman-Markey climate change bill that just passed the U.S. House of Representatives wants to force developing countries to accept this fate by resorting to the old and tired method of protectionism.
Now there is the likelihood that health reform, like the climate-change bill, will be deferred until the autumn, when fears about the deficit will have grown and the two expensive bills could combine to spook voters.
She chose to go to the country when Labor was ahead in the polls, just two months after fronting a coup against Kevin Rudd, seen as an autocrat and a loser after having abandoned his signature climate-change bill.
That row had a knock-on effect on a bipartisan effort to craft an energy and climate-change bill as Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator, withdrew his crucial support and blamed what he said was a partisan attempt to refocus on immigration.
Lord Beecham wanted to change the bill to strengthen communications between local councils and police commissioners.
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And that's why this administration's refusal to go in and change this bill, I think, is a false position, " Cantor told "State of the Union.
But Ms Mowlam was unwavering in her view that to change the Bill was impossible in light of agreements already undertaken and in her conviction that the link between decommissioning and early release of prisoners was clearly spelt out in the legislation before the House.
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Hedge funds are not covered by FDIC insurance, so they escape all charges with this bill change, at least for now.
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Is the only objection that the President has to something that the Senate does to change the Boehner bill would be the short-term extension?
Interestingly, the Black unemployment rate in November of 1988 was 10.7% but 13.7% in November of 1992, when the Black electorate voted for change through President Bill Clinton.
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At the other end of the spectrum is to - as one aide told me - change two words in the bill, you know, make a cosmetic change and send it back to him.
Another provision in the bill would change the tax treatment of publicly traded private-equity firms, such as Blackstone and Fortress Investment Group.
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Labour peer Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town is proposing the amendments to the current Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (ERR) Bill to change that.
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