House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., said he would vote against a conference report on climate change legislation if it were similar to the House version of the bill, Congress Daily reported. Peterson said he thought the bill was "not going anyplace in the Senate. But if it did, and we ended up with a bill that was similar to what came out of the House and that was going to become law, I would vote no."
Peterson said he voted for the House version of the bill last June only because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had agreed to the changes he demanded. He was quoted as saying: "It was one of those things where the ag people asked me to get involved to make sure that if anything ever happened, they'd be able to live with it. And part of what happened was I ended up getting everything I asked for, and then if I'm going to have any integrity, I was kind of stuck voting for it."
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