‘Markup Spat Could Cost Climate Bill Support’, ‘She Poisoned the Waters’

6 GOP ranking members urge Boxer to slow down Six senior Senate Republicans warned the chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee today to slow down in her bid to move global warming legislation, saying she risks severely damaging chances of passing the bill on the floor. The ranking members of the six committees with jurisdiction over the climate bill delivered a letter to EPW Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) saying they were "deeply troubled by the failure to accommodate" Republican requests for more information about the proposal. They also questioned Boxer's decision to begin marking up the bill tomorrow "without sufficient opportunity to address the bipartisan concerns raised over the course of legislative hearings on the measure."