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Hearing Set for Boxer-Kerry Climate Change Legislation
USAgNet - 10/20/2009
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer of California, chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has announced that the Committee will start a three-day hearing on the Boxer-Kerry climate change
bill on Oct. 27. The first witnesses will be administrative agency and cabinet heads including Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, EPA
Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Jon Wellinghoff. Other witnesses have not yet been announced.
Boxer indicated that she would like to have her ommittee began markup on the bill early in November.
Other Senate committees, notably the Senate Agriculture Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, are also working on parts of climate change legislation relevant to their Committees.
U.S. Senator Lincoln, chair of the agriculture committee, has not yet set dates for agriculture hearings.
U.S. Senator Baucus of Montana, chair of the finance committee, has said that his committee will address the issues of international trade and emission allowance allocations, but has also not announced
hearing dates.
The process and timetable for how a final bill will be marked up and melded together has not yet been announced by Senate leadership.
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