Obama,
Senator Barack |
His Record
- Voted YES on S.Amdt.
1094 to H.R.
1495 "Water Resources Development
Act of 2007". An amendment
that would require the consideration
of global climate change, in planning,
feasibility studies, & general
reevaluation reports. Would require
accounting for the costs & benefits
from the impacts of global climate
change on flood, storm, and drought
risks; potential future impacts of
global climate change-related weather
events, such as increased hurricane
activity, intensity, storm surge,
sea level rise, and associated flooding; & employs
nonstructural approaches and design
modifications to avoid or prevent
impacts to streams, wetlands, and
floodplains that provide natural
flood and storm buffers.
May 15, 2007
- Voted YES S.Amdt.
2358 to S. 1932 To remove the
establishment of an oil and gas leasing
program in the Alaskan Coastal Plain.
The original bill allows for an oil
and gas leasing program in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Voting
YES on this amendment would
remove that section, hence barring
leasing in ANWR.
November 3, 2005
- SUPPORTS policies
that encourage development of alternative
energy technologies and reduce our
dependence on foreign oil.
- Voted YES on H.R.
6 "Clean Energy Act of 2007".
An Act to move the United States
toward greater energy independence
and security, to increase the
production of clean renewable
fuels, to protect consumers from
price gouging, to increase the
energy efficiency of products,
buildings, and vehicles, to promote
research on and deploy greenhouse
gas capture and storage options,
and to improve the energy performance
of the Federal Government, and
for other purposes.
June 21, 2007
- Voted YES on S.Amdt.
1519 to S.Amdt. 1502 to H.R.
6 the "Clean Energy Act
of 2007". A bill to
amend the Sherman Act and make
oil-producing and exporting cartels
illegal.
June 19, 2007
- Co-sponsored S.
339 Dependence Reduction through
Innovation in Vehicles and Energy
(DRIVE) Act. This bill aims
to reduce our oil consumption
by 2.5 million barrels per day
in ten years by taking an innovative,
market-based approach that relies
on advanced technology and an
expansion of renewable fuels.
January 18, 2007
- Sponsored S.
133 "American Fuels Act" that
would increase the domestic production,
distribution, and use of biofuels,
including expanded manufacture
of flexible fuel vehicles, tax
credits for biofuels, and a nationwide
distribution infrastructure.
- Co-sponsored S.
2025 "Vehicle and Fuel Choices
for American Security Act" of
2005, which would have reduced
oil consumption by 10-million
barrels per day by 2031.
November 16, 2005
- SUPPORTS reductions
in greenhouse gas emissions.
- Found common ground across party
lines on fuel economy standards, renewable
fuels, and clean coal.
- Developed an approach to gradually
increase CAFE (Corporate
Average Fuel Economy) standards while
protecting the financial future of
American automakers. Establishing concrete
targets for annual CAFE increases while
giving industry the flexibility to
meet those targets.
- Introduced legislation encouraging
automakers to make fuel-efficient hybrid
vehicles by helping with health care
costs of their retirees. Health care
assistance in exchange for investing
50 percent of the savings into technology
to produce more fuel-efficient vehicles.
- Advocated a law with Senator Jim
Talent allowing gas stations to be
eligible for tax credits for installing
E85 ethanol refueling pumps. Sponsored
an amendment that became law providing
$40 million for commercialization of
a combined flexible fuel vehicle/hybrid
car within five years.
- Introduced legislation with Sen.
Thad Cochran to require 2 billion gallons
of alternative diesels, such as biodiesel,
to be produced domestically by 2015.
Sponsored legislation requiring oil
companies, that made at least $1 billion
in profits in the first quarter of
2006 to invest at least 1 percent of
the their total reported first quarter
2006 profits into installing E85 pumps.
- An original cosponsor of legislation
to establish limits on greenhouse gas
emissions that encourages the market
to determine how best to reduce greenhouse
gases, rewarding cost-effective approaches
through a system of tradeable allowances.
Revenues generated will be directed
to helping industries and individuals
most affected by the limits, and also
to fund research and development of
new, more efficient, energy technologies.
His Plan
- Require that all transportation fuels
sold in the U.S. contain 5 percent
less carbon by 2015 and 10 percent
less carbon by 2020.
- Reintroduce a bill that would set
a 4 percent annual increase in efficiency
as a target.
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