TPMDC’s daily update on the biggest legislative initiatives on the Hill:
- Climate Change: The marathon mark up of the Waxman-Markey climate change bill continued today, with at least one moment of levity as a speed reader, hired by Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats to motor through Republican delay tactics, was called before the panel to read part of an amendment. Incidentally, if you want to track changes to the bill amendment by amendment, you can do so here. The committee’s work may be done as soon as tonight.
- Defense Spending: The Senate invoked cloture on the supplemental war-spending bill, now bereft of funds for closing down the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It’s unclear why cloture had to be filed–the final tally was 94-1, the lone dissent being a protest vote by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI)–but I guess if the GOP didn’t insist on cloture, government might get things done quickly, and that would be dispositive of the whole philosophy of conservatism
