The Senate spent much of last year congratulating itself on moving a global warming bill through the process, even as environmental groups and one Democratic presidential candidate (John Edwards) were blasting its cap-and-trade system for regulating carbon emissions as ineffective.
At first, the talk on the Hill was that global warming would get its day on the floor while winter winds were still blowing. But now the senate looks likely to hold off until at least April, while the House of Representatives ... well, let's ask Democratic majority leader Steny Hoyer:
[W]e'll be dealing with a broader agenda on global warming. ... [W]e expect to see it on the floor sometime this year, perhaps before the summer. I'm not going to set a time limit on that.
