Senate Proceeding on Jun 5th, 2008 :: 7:36:10 to 7:37:25
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Speech By: Tom Harkin

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Tom Harkin: could be further from the truth. over a year ago i spent time with jeff bingaman in brussels, paris, and london, meeting with carbon traders, meeting with members of the european commission, meeting

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Kent Conrad: with utilities, meeting with cement manufacturers, meeting with everybody involved who had a stake when they put this process in place in europe. this pas july with a group of senators, led by

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Speech By: Kent Conrad

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Kent Conrad: senator boxer in california, went to greenland and saw firsthand the poster child, if you will of what we've all been talking about. met with danish scientists, met scientists from our country. i read

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Kent Conrad: tremendously about this issue throughout the year. every time i read a book or a magazine that was a proponent, i read one that an opponent, if you will. i've gotten both sides of this issue.

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Kent Conrad: our staff has spent inordinate e amounts of time on this. we have offered amendments. i have actually sent a letter to every single senator in this chamber w ith detailed amendments and the background

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Kent Conrad: and the reason that we were offering those amendments. i have never on this senate floor use mid degree of demagoguery to talk about the issue. i have only spoken about the facts of the policy that

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we are debating~ the reason this bill is going to fail tomorrow is not just because of the process. this bill is going to fail because it has serious flaws. and, again, the process that we went through