{"id":546270,"date":"2010-04-28T18:42:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T22:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=23850"},"modified":"2010-04-28T18:42:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T22:42:11","slug":"podesta-energy-first-for-congress-then-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546270","title":{"rendered":"Podesta:  Energy First for Congress, Then Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great debate over the scheduling of comprehensive immigration reform  versus clean energy and climate legislation has engulfed Washington.   Lost in that frenzy is the need for Congress to do both.\u00a0 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/aboutus\/staff\/PodestaJohn.html\">John  D. Podesta<\/a>, CAPAF President and CEO explains why in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/2010\/04\/congress_scheduling.html\">repost<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-23850\"><\/span> The Senate now has a clear schedule for consideration:  the energy  and climate bill followed by immigration reform. The consternation and  anxiety\u2014and even the threats\u2014surrounding the schedule must now come to  an end so we can solve these critical problems.<\/p>\n<p>It is obvious that energy and climate legislation is further along in  the legislative process than immigration reform.  The Environmental  Protection Agency is doing its assessment of the bill and it should be  ready for Senate consideration within weeks.  This gives leadership,  sponsors, and supporters time to secure 60 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Comprehensive immigration reform is no less worthy of consideration  but needs more time to develop legislatively.  The passage of draconian  legislation in Arizona amplifies the demand for a prompt federal  solution. Constructing immigration reform that can garner bipartisan  support can\u2019t be done in a matter of days but it\u2019s critical that the  process be accelerated and we move to it this year.<\/p>\n<p>Given this path forward it is time for senators and interest groups  alike to put an end to the histrionics and get to work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; John Podesta<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great debate over the scheduling of comprehensive immigration reform versus clean energy and climate legislation has engulfed Washington. Lost in that frenzy is the need for Congress to do both.\u00a0 John D. Podesta, CAPAF President and CEO explains why in this repost. The Senate now has a clear schedule for consideration: the energy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546270","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}