Victory. No Cap and Trade For Now.

Dear XXX,

Thanks to the more than 25,000 e-mails CCAGW members like you sent to Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last Friday pulled the Climate Security Act after falling a dozen votes short of the 60 needed to end debate and bring the bill up for a vote!

Introduced by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John Warner (R-Va.), the Climate Security Act was "cap-and-trade" energy legislation that attempted to limit greenhouse gas emissions, principally carbon dioxide, and establish a trading system for emissions allowances. In reality, the bill was nothing more than a hidden tax that would raise energy costs by $1.2 trillion by 2018 and would have created an army of new bureaucrats that eventually would have dictated nearly every aspect of commercial and indvidual energy use.

In rejecting the legislation, the Senate acknowledged this unacceptable expansion of government and said no to its higher costs and elite command-and-control structure that would kill prosperity.Thank you again for your help in this very important government waste battle! This truly is YOUR victory!

Sincerely,
Thomas A. Schatz
President Citizens Against Government Waste