House Dems plan to force climate science vote

House Democrats are planning to put Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans on the record about whether they believe in human-induced global warming. The committee will consider a GOP-led bill Tuesday that would kill EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases. But Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the panel's top Democrat, has called the bill an affront to the consensus scientific view global warming is occurring and that human activities — notably burning fossil fuels — are a major reason why. He strongly suggested that Democratic amendments at Tuesday’s markup will include one about climate science. “I think it would be good to have people on record,” Waxman said Monday evening, while noting that overall amendment planning remained ongoing...more