2 Texas Dems betray Texas in vote for energy tax

Houston Chronicle:

The Obama administration joined environmentalists Friday in heaping praise on Texas Democratic Reps. Charlie Gonzalez and Gene Green for helping climate change legislation win approval by a congressional committee.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called the pair “courageous” for joining 30 other Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee in voting for the roughly 1,000-page bill late Thursday.

With a relatively close vote of 33-25, the support from Green and Gonzalez was key — one reason panel Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., spent weeks negotiating with them on a plan to cushion refiners from the proposal’s financial cost.

Waxman’s agreement to give refiners 2 percent of an annual pool of valuable pollution permits helped seal the deal.

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Outside of Congress that deal would be known as a bribe. In Congress it is log rolling. This legislation will put the US in a permanent recession by raising the price that consumers have to pay for energy. Its give backs will be rationed to those who control freaks like Waxman think are worthy. It is part of the Democrat anti freedom agenda.

That Green and Gonzales went along with this travesty just shows what their price is.