Obama Urges Senate to Pass Climate Bill [video]
President says cost to average American in ten years will be equivalent to one postage stamp per day
Invoking the now-familiar messages heard throughout both his campaign and much of his presidency, like growing new jobs, moving off foreign sources of energy and building a clean energy economy, President Obama implored the U.S. Senate to move forward with a version of the Waxman-Markey climate bill passed by the House of Representatives on Friday.
“My call to every senator, as well as to every American, is this,” Mr. Obama said in his weekly address, “We cannot be afraid of the future. And we must not be prisoners of the past. Don’t believe the misinformation out there that suggests there is somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy and economic growth.”
Mr. Obama focused on the passage of Waxman-Markey in his address despite reportedly having already recorded an address focusing on health care legislation. Watch it:
House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio pushed back in the Republicans’ weekly radio and Internet address, “By imposing a tax on every American who drives a car or flips on a light switch,” said Boehner, “this plan will drive up the prices for food, gasoline and electricity.”
Boehner, however, failed to note that there is already a tax on every American who drives a car or flips on a light switch.
