Our Congress at Work

I wouldn't want to be the people that have to write government legislation, because the sheer activity of reading it (same goes for the President's budget) is excruciatingly painful.

On June 24th our the House passed the Waxman-Harkey Climate Bill, HR 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. Why they threw security in there is kind of strange, maybe they wanted a bit of continuity from the Bush years...

The entire bill has been released to the public, and here it is. A lot of it doesn't make sense to me, but I'm not a politician. By the time it was passed in the House, they had stripped it down so much or made provisions to the bill, it's a shell of what it could have been in terms of changing energy policy.

Some things are good, some things are confusing, and some things are dumb. Instead of getting a Green New Deal, it seems we got a Green Almost-New-Deal.