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domestic agenda, the affordable care act, obamacare, if you will. bringing health care to tens of millions of americans. the next item on their agenda was another historic piece of legislation. a desperately needed climate bill to address the growing threat posed by global warming. democrats had already coalesced around the bill that was written by two democratic house members, then congressman henry waxman, and ed markey. in washington and around the country, that bill became known as the cap and trade bill. after a central provision in the legislation to put a cap or a limit on carbon emissions and businesses chain themselves their emissions capacity to each other. it wasn t the most far-reaching proposal that democrats were pushing for at the time, but it wasn t a half measure either. had it passed, the cap in trade bill would have been the single biggest legislative attempt under dressing climate change in u.s. history. and democrats appeared to be on track to get i ....

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of the great recession by early 2010, they had passed a major part of the president s domestic agenda, the affordable care act, obamacare, if you will. bringing health care to tens of millions of americans. the next item on their agenda was another historic piece of legislation. a desperately needed climate bill to address the growing threat posed by global warming. democrats had already coalesced around the bill that was written by two democratic house members, then congressman henry waxman, and ed markey. in washington and around the country, that bill became known as the cap and trade bill. after a central provision in the legislation to put a cap or a limit on carbon emissions and businesses trade or sell their emissions excesses to each other. it wasn t the most far-reaching proposal that democrats were pushing for at the time, but it wasn t a half measure either. had it passed, the cap in trade bill would have been the single biggest legislative attempt under dres ....

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