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Help Keep Cap and Trade in the Budget

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

(National Wildlife Federation)

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Release March 31, 2009

This week Congress is considering the President's budget proposal which includes revenue assumptions from a Cap-and-Trade program.  This revenue assumption is in line with announcements from House and Senate leadership dedication to pass climate legislation this year.
 
But the budget process is complicated, and the language that provides revenue assumptions from Cap-And-Trade has already come under attack from opponents of climate legislation in the Senate.  Some amendments have already been voted on, and many more are sure to come.  The budget will be wrapped up before the Senate goes on break this Friday, the April the 3rd.

It is critical that we maintain a steady drumbeat so that Senators all across the country know to preserve these Cap-and Trade revenue assumptions as a symbolic, yet extremely important  move towards passing climate legislation in 2009.