courant.com | Lieberman Sets Timeline For Climate Bill:
April 16, 2007
By JOEL LANG, Courant Staff Writer
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman laid out a timetable on Sunday for a congressional vote on legislation that would set the first national limits on the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.
'My hope is we can bring a bill out of [committee] before the summer recess so that it will be ready for floor action sometime in September,' Lieberman, an independent, said at a press conference in Hartford intended as a progress report on government efforts to combat global warming.
A congressional vote would be a watershed moment in the federal response to global warming. ..."
