{"id":544803,"date":"2010-04-27T15:14:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T19:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=83286"},"modified":"2010-04-27T15:14:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T19:14:54","slug":"kerry-we%e2%80%99re-sending-climate-bill-to-epa-for-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/544803","title":{"rendered":"Kerry: We\u2019re Sending Climate Bill to EPA for Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Sen. Lindsey Graham&#8217;s (R-S.C.) <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/83152\/graham-withdraws-from-climate-trio\">recent withdrawal<\/a> from the climate legislation process, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE63Q3V220100427\">telling reporters<\/a> that the Environmental Protection Agency will soon begin analyzing the economic impact of the climate bill he and Graham helped craft.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We are sending the bill to be modeled now with  Lindsey Graham&#8217;s consent,&#8221; the Democratic senator told reporters. [&#8230;]<span id=\"more-83286\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The EPA analysis of their bill could take more  than a month to complete and legislation could not be queued up for a  full Senate debate until the results are disseminated.<\/p>\n<p>That would put the climate bill on the  Senate floor in June at the earliest, but more likely in July. But that  assumes that political divisions, of which there are many in addition to  Graham&#8217;s concerns, get resolved.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Sen. Lindsey Graham&#8217;s (R-S.C.) recent withdrawal from the climate legislation process, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is telling reporters that the Environmental Protection Agency will soon begin analyzing the economic impact of the climate bill he and Graham helped craft. &#8220;We are sending the bill to be modeled now with Lindsey Graham&#8217;s consent,&#8221; the Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}