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UQ- Won’t Pass- GeneralObama still has to bid for more support to get Energy Reform Passed. PS 6/29/10(Public Service News Service, “Support for Obama energy bill muted”, http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=13382)AQB Barack Obama's hopes of bringing in sweeping clean energy legislation may have been forced into compromise in a bid to gain support from those who favour a more targeted approach. President Obama is pushing for action in the wake of the Gulf oil spill and has urged senators to find common ground. But failure to develop a broad agreement of Democrat and Republican senators on energy and climate law could lead to new proposals that recast energy reform as a Gulf oil spill response rather than broader and more extensive clean energy legislation. John Kerry, the Democrat who is leading the push for climate law change in the US senate said: "We are prepared to scale back the reach of our legislation in order to try and find that place of compromise, because we believe, and I think the president believes very strongly, that what is important is for America to get started." But the path forward to that compromise will be difficult. Kerry has called for more offshore drilling, something that senators from coastal states such as Florida are opposed to. While others such as Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican, are deeply opposed to putting an economy-wide price on carbon and have called on the president to instead focus on the spill. UQ- Won’t Pass- GrahamEnergy reform dead- Graham withdrawn, dead in the Senate Mascaro 6/13 [Lisa, Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2010, Lexis] KLS "The obituary for comprehensive and clean-energy-reform legislation has been written every week," said Daniel J. Weiss, director of climate strategy at the liberal-leaning Center for American Progress Action Fund. "All of those predictions were wrong." The Senate has long been considered the place where such legislation goes to die. That became clear to House Democrats over the last year as their chamber passed a sweeping climate change bill only to see it stall in the Senate. House Democrats, many in reelection fights in swing districts, came under attack as Republicans deftly labeled the bill a light-switch tax because it could raise the cost of coal and other carbon fuels used to generate electricity.A Just eight House Republicans supported the measure. Hope for Senate action was dashed when the main Republican negotiator, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said in late April he was pulling back. Energy reform won’t pass- Graham is opposing it- he’s key because he wrote it Walsh June 29th (Bryan, Political Director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Time http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2010/06/29/hope-seems-to-dim-for-cap-and-trade/?xid=rss-topstories ) ET Other than maybe Jason in Friday the 13th, nothing has supposedly died and come back to life more often than climate legislation and carbon cap-and-trade. A year ago, thanks in part to fierce opposition from business interests led by the Chamber of Commerce, the cap-and-trade bill cosponsored by Henry Waxman and Edward Markey just barely passed the House of Representatives, 219 to 212. As Eric Pooley writes in his great new book The Climate War, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to wield a mean whip to get her members in line for the vote. (Just eight Republicans voted for Waxman-Markey, and 44 Democrats opposed it.) And in the Senate this year, the path has only been tougher for cap-and-trade. Democrat John Kerry, independent Joe Lieberman and Republican Lindsay Graham worked together for months to build a Senate version of cap-and-trade, despite the daunting need to get at least 60 votes to beat a filibuster—only to see Graham drop out in late April out of anger that Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid had indicated he might want to move first on immigration reform. Kerry and Lieberman still managed to bring cap-and-trade back from the dead, coming forward with a draft bill in mid-May. But since then, Graham himself has come out against the bill that he helped build, and senator after senator—including Democrats—has said that cap-and-trade simply doesn't have the votes to pass. Kerry and Lieberman kept plugging, and many greens hoped that the Gulf oil spill—showcasing just how dirty America's energy supply really is—would change the underlying politics of climate policy. But a meeting at the White House today between a group of bipartisan senators and President Barack Obama might finally be the last nail in a broad cap-and-trade bill. Senate Democrats at the meeting offered to further scale back their plans to cap greenhouse gases across the entire economy—even though the Kerry-Lieberman bill itself is a less ambitious version of the Waxman-Markey bill that was passed a year ago. UQ- Won’t Pass- KerryEnergy reform won’t pass- Kerry calls for too sweeping of demands and oil spill overshadows PS June 30th (Public Service, 6-30-10, http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=13382 ) ET But the path forward to that compromise will be difficult. Kerry has called for more offshore drilling, something that senators from coastal states such as Florida are opposed to. While others such as Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican, are deeply opposed to putting an economy-wide price on carbon and have called on the president to instead focus on the spill. "If we want a clean energy bill, take a national energy tax off the table in the middle of a recession while we focus on the oil spill and focus on what we agree on," said Alexander. "Priority one, two and three for any meeting on energy is to make sure we give the president whatever he needs to clear up the oil spill and to help people who are hurt and to make sure that it doesn't happen again." Lawmakers in the House and Senate are pursuing bills related to the oil spill, such as raising the legal liability for oil companies and limiting deepwater drilling. The bills are likely to be packaged together, although it's not clear whether spill legislation would be considered separately or attached to a larger energy bill. The legislation is likely to be delivered in July. 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