Republicans want to turn the budget plan from Senate Democrats into a
“legislative sledgehammer” against President Obama's green agenda,
Organizing for Action warned Thursday. The outside group,
which was formed from the remnants of Obama's reelection campaign, asked
supporters to sign a petition demanding a “clean budget” in the Senate.
It warned of GOP-backed amendments to the resolution that are “designed
to destroy environmental protections and set back decades of progress.” “Let's be clear — there are very real, very powerful interests
behind these measures, and this fight is only beginning. Organizing for
Action is going to be on the front lines, fighting back,” Ivan
Frishberg, climate campaign manager with OFA, wrote in the letter. The memo said the GOP measures could include proposals to thwart
Environmental Protection Agency greenhouse gas emissions rules, stomp
out clean-energy tax credits and bypass administrative authority on the
Keystone XL oil sands pipeline. The email comes shortly after Obama encouraged attendees at an
Organizing for Action (OFA) event in Washington, D.C., to embolden
lawmakers by voicing support for climate policies. “If we move aggressively on an issue like climate change — that’s not an
easy issue for a lot of folks, because the benefits may be out in the
future. And I want to make sure that a congressman, senator feels as if
they've got the information and the grassroots network that’s going to
support them in that effort,” Obama
said at the event last week. Following up on that call, OFA asked people in the email to sign the
clean-budget petition to let “members of Congress ... know that we’ve
got a massive community of supporters ready to help them out if they do
the right thing — or make life very hard for them if they don’t.”...
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