Speaker Pelosi’s Timing…

Posted on January 18, 2007
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The Drudge Report headline captured the irony pretty well. Pelosi announces a House panel with no legislative authority to study global warming in the same week a record freeze in her home state wipes out the citrus crop to the tune of $1 billion in losses.

Considering that members of Congress logged 3,400 trips on private jets last year alone, Pelosi should have convened a panel on the impact of Congress’ global travel and junkets habit and the potential reduction of greenhouse gases and emissions from just flying commercial like the people they are supposed to be serving.

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