It's about time the Democrats fought back against the delaying tactics of the Republicans on every important issue facing us but this latest move by Barbara Boxer is going to get a lot of GOP skivvies in a knot:
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved climate change legislation Thursday with no Republicans voting for the bill or even participating in the process.
With Republican boycotting the proceedings, Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) relied on a little used interpretation of committee rules to move the legislation. Traditionally, two minority members are required to conduct committee business. [...]
“This is not a procedure we wanted; it’s a procedure that’s available to us,” said Boxer. “The majority has to be able to do its work…otherwise the whole Senate could come to a screeching halt.”
Republicans called Boxer's move the “nuclear option,” warning that it violated decades of committee precedent.
“I am here to appeal to you and the members of the committee,” Sen. Jim Inhofe, the top Republican on the committee, said in a brief statement. “In the history of this committee, we have not been able to find a time when the bill has been marked up without minority.”
In his typical fashion Inhofe is being an asshole and simply ignores the fact that he and the rest of the Republicans on the committee were being childish snots by not even having the common decency to show up for the hearings. Screw 'em!
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