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US lawmaker vows climate change draft in 2009

by Staff Writers
 Washington (AFP) Feb 3, 2009
 The US Senate may take up legislation crafting a "cap-and-trade" system for fighting climate change in as little as three weeks but surely by the end of the year, a key lawmaker promised Tuesday.

Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said she would take the time necessary to build maximum support among her colleagues for swift and comprehensive action.

"It will take a while, it could be weeks not months, but it will be before the end of this year," she promised at a press conference to unveil broad "principles" she believed the legislation must include.

"I said 'by the end of the year,'" said Boxer, who offered next to no concrete details of the "cap-and-trade" program she envisioned. "We may move in three weeks, we may move in six weeks, we could move in 10 weeks."

Boxer said she expected to draw Republican support, that other colleagues in the Senate and House of Representatives were working on their own measures, and urged supporters to help counter warnings that the grim recession requires postponing major action to fight climate change.

"In fact, the surest way to create good jobs in this country is to mobilize for clean energy independence," she said.

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