In a 219-to-212 vote this evening, the House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which will “for the first time put a price on carbon emissions” in the U.S. In the final minutes of the debate, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) threatened to obstruct the bill by reading 300 pages of amendments, but eventually relented and read only a few sentences from selected portions.
212 members of Congress, including 44 Democrats, voted against creating 1.7 million new jobs. They're smart!
Adding... Do you get the impression passing these bills is way harder than it ought to be, considering how popular the president is, and how the Democrats have strong majorities in both chambers? Sure, this says a lot about the weakness of too many Democrats and the lockstep insanity of the Republicans. But it also says a lot about how truly radical (in a good way) the president's agenda actually is -- not necessarily from the perspective of many of us on the left, but in terms the present Washington political climate.