In late June, a White House-backed climate change bill passed 219-212 in the House, with virtually no Republican support.
Over 40 of them broke ranks in the House over the climate-change bill.
"By setting this goal, we acknowledge there is a problem, and by setting this goal, we commit ourselves to doing something about it, " Bush said in a speech that capped two days of talks at a White House-sponsored climate change conference.
It can be hard to sell a house in the current climate, so if your plans are not firm, look for a rental.
The one caveat for Markey today: He may not want to give up his chairmanship of an influential House committee dealing with climate-change legislation.
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This fall the House is scheduled to take up climate change legislation, and he says that he's willing to try to fit the renewable energy standard into that measure if necessary.
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.
The House had a test vote this morning and the climate bill narrowly got through there.
In a recording from Clarence House, the prince said he remains concerned about climate change and possible long-term environmental damage.
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The House, meanwhile, is working on its own climate change legislation and is likely to hold hearings later this month on a different approach: a carbon tax.
But in a bizarre statement, energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne told the House of Commons that his policies mean consumers will actually be better off.
There is a growing danger that this bill will not be passed through the Senate and reconciled with the House version in time for the Copenhagen summit on climate change in December.
And his most cherished reform, an emissions-trading scheme to tackle climate change, is stuck in the upper house of parliament, where his government lacks a majority.
The House of Representatives has already passed a comprehensive energy and climate bill, and there is currently a plan in the Senate -- a plan that was developed with ideas from Democrats and Republicans -- that would achieve the same goal.
President Obama met today with Secretary Napolitano, Secretary Chu, Secretary Salazar, Administrator Jackson, Administrator Lubchenco, National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Carol Browner and other senior White House officials to receive a briefing on the administration-wide response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill.
White House aides said the president's working group on global climate change is continuing to look for ways to reduce global warming.
But climate change legislation died in Congress, Republicans gained a majority in the House, and pocketbook issues like the price of gasoline began dominating public discussion.
"Of course, he's happy for Vice President Gore, happy for the International Panel on Climate Change scientists, who also shared the Peace Prize, " White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto said.
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Throngs at the "Forward on Climate" rally spent several hours marching from the Washington Monument to the White House, then back to the Mall.
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.
Since September Lord Marland has been an unpaid junior minister in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills - acting as the government's business spokesman in the House of Lords - having previously held a similar role in the Department for Energy and Climate Change.
Even when those inventories are worked off, house prices will probably rise little, if at all, in a low inflation or deflationary climate.
Six months on from opening, Mr Leck is adamant that being a free house is the only way he could have made the Fenny Compton business work given the current climate.
But given the current economic climate and the upcoming Presidential election, there could be a different administration entering The White House soon, changing the landscape for these types of bills.
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In this anti-intellectual and anti-rational climate, Netanyahu's speech has little chance of making a lasting impact on the White House.
That means the moderate Democrats in the House and Senate who are up for re-election this fall will be wading into an even more hostile political climate than when they initially bit the bullet to back their party last year.
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