Article by
Kyle Danish, Shelley Fidler, Kevin Gallagher, Megan
Ceronsky, Tomás Carbonell, David Frenkil, Sharon
White
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Commentary
Examining the state of the Senate, it is difficult to
discern – at least at the moment – a path to 60
votes. Most Senate offices are grappling with health care, and have
had little time to digest the 1400 page climate bill that emerged
from the House. The open issues are numerous, complex, and
meaningful: effects on the agriculture sector, oversight of a new
multi-billion dollar commodity trading market, offsets, incentives
for nuclear power, impacts of the international reserve allowance
provisions on trade, the interplay with multilateral negotiations
scheduled for December, allowance allocation, etc. Central to
winning the last 6-10 votes is some sense of what the hold-outs
will need, but most of these critical offices
