Senate Environment & Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said the delay in work by senators on the climate change bill did not mean the legislation would not eventually be approved, National Public Radio reported. Boxer said "that the political agreement that's reached at the United Nations-led meetings in Copenhagen in December should spur us on" to take up the bill early next year.
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., declared: "Some people are trying to hurry the process too much." He pointed to the lack of broad knowledge of the cap-and-trade proposal in the Senate as reason to slow work on "a bill of that scope and magnitude." Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he believed that "if you're willing to find middle ground, we can get" to agreement on a bill. Boxer was quoted as saying of the delay: "I don't think it means that there's no progress. I don't think it means that we're never going to do it."
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