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  • Question:

    Scientists tell us that we need to reduce our carbon output 80% by 2050 to mitigate the effects of climate change. What is your plan to meet that goal?

    Asked by: Rebekah Simon-Peter from Rawlins, WY. Received 13 Votes.
    Categories: Environment. Tags: environment · global warming · global warming climate change urgent.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)

    We need to provide from the energy point with energy self-sufficiency. Wyoming is the No.1 coal producer in the United States. Number one in uranium. Number two for natural gas, so we've done a considerable amount for the energy need of the nation. I'm going to continue to work to make sure Wyoming is part of that picture. Also we have incredible renewable sources, like the wind. I'm working for renewables as well.

    Answered on Jul 8th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Scientists tell us that we need to reduce our carbon output 80% by 2050 to mitigate the effects of climate change. What is your plan to meet that goal?

    Asked by: Rebekah Simon-Peter from Rawlins, WY. Received 13 Votes.
    Categories: Environment. Tags: environment · global warming · global warming climate change urgent.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. John W. Warner (R-VA)

    It’s important that we once again restore America’s ability to build nuclear power plants. We’ve lost that now. We have stopped the production of these plants, so to speak, for almost two decades. So it’s time to recognize that it’s a safe form of energy. It produces nearly zero CO2 compared to a coal-fired plant. Zero. Right now, we rely on nuclear power for about 20 percent of our energy. I’d like to see in the next decade or 15 years, perhaps that 20 percent can go as high as 30 or 35 percent.

    Answered on Jul 8th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Scientists tell us that we need to reduce our carbon output 80% by 2050 to mitigate the effects of climate change. What is your plan to meet that goal?

    Asked by: Rebekah Simon-Peter from Rawlins, WY. Received 13 Votes.
    Categories: Environment. Tags: environment · global warming · global warming climate change urgent.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV)

    So the point is to make coal to liquid clean and sequestration complete. It's going to take billions and billions of dollars and it has to be done by the federal government. It has to be a Manhattan project, but it's much more important.

    Answered on Jul 8th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Scientists tell us that we need to reduce our carbon output 80% by 2050 to mitigate the effects of climate change. What is your plan to meet that goal?

    Asked by: Rebekah Simon-Peter from Rawlins, WY. Received 13 Votes.
    Categories: Environment. Tags: environment · global warming · global warming climate change urgent.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)

    It all comes from Hollywood, from the far left, and the ones who are the same as the extremist animal right activists and people who bomb construction sites, but it's a very well funded extreme group. That's why the politicians are inclined to act like they are supporting it.

    Answered on Jul 8th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    The Florida primary was moved forward as part of a referendum to standardize on optical scan voting machines. Would you care to comment on how that referendum happened to change the date of the Florida primary... and disenfranchise the Florida voters?

    Asked by: Kurt Christensen from Westminster, MD. Received 14 Votes.
    Categories: Civil Liberties · Technology. Tags: cover-up · florida primary · Voting machines.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL)

    Well, first I don’t think it was just that referendum caused the change. I believe the state legislature on the House side or the Speaker of the House proffered a motion that came over to the Senate, and the Democrats in the Senate wanted a paper trail measure added to it with reference to the change of the date. So the change of the date took place inside the legislature with the Governor’s approval and not on a state-wide referendum.

    Answered on Jun 30th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Why has Congress not acted to open the Federal employee health care system up to private individuals and businesses. This was a promise the Democrats made when they took Congress in 2006. It would cost us nothing to do this, and it would provide a means for individuals and employers to obtain health care insurance at reasonable rates.

    Asked by: David Stoddard from Silver Spring, MD. Received 20 Votes.
    Categories: Health. Tags: health care · insurance · promises.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)

    What Americans want is to make sure they have choices like their Members of Congress have. Members of Congress have private health care choices. And with the Healthy Americans Act we have now been able to get a significant group of senators, both Republicans and Democrats, to show that for the amount of money that’s being spent on health care today, according to the budget experts, it’s possible for all Americans to have similar choices.

    Answered on Jun 27th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Bush and Cheney and others are guilty of impeachable offenses. Why are not more members of Congress speaking out about the lies, the public admissions of permitting torture, the subversion of our Constitution?

    Asked by: apr from Milwaukee, WI. Received 27 Votes.
    Categories: President Bush. Tags: constitution · iraq war · torture.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV)

    Number one, they’re bad enough that it’s not worth wasting our time impeaching them and if we were to have impeached them we should have done it five years ago.  To do it at the end of their term would be that we would get nothing else done and it wouldn’t mean anything. We impeached them through these reports like in the intelligence community phase I; phase II.  I mean everything that comes out, this morning’s papers, the political appointment of lawyers in the justice department. I mean they are impeached, just not legally.

    Answered on Jun 24th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Given our financial problems - deficit, trade-balance, currency-parity, human needs, infrastructure, etc. Do you agree we should drastically cut our military spending? If not, how would you meet our needs?

    Asked by: gary knott from Silver Spring, MD. Received 1 Vote.
    Categories: Defense. Tags: use of our money.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH)

    Well, to begin with the military spending as a percentage of the federal budget is less than it used to be. The biggest part of the federal spending is entitlement spending, that’s 60 percent and military spending represents about 15 percent. So I would think their question should have been: “Should we cut domestic spending in non-military accounts?” Since the first obligation of a federal government is to defend the country.

    Matt Laslo: But it seems like everyone is afraid of entitlements – do you see any political will…?

    Answered on Jun 24th, 2008 More

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