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Speaking of the other shoe dropping. early this morning the senate passing a bill. what is in it and what happens when it hits the house later today? joining us stephen moore, senior writer for "wall street journal" happy new year. good to see you. >> you too, rick. rick: what do you think?. >> you ask a question what is in the bill. a lot of members don't know. rick: they're probably reing it right now. >> i was up to the wee hours of the morning trying to read the 150 page bill. amazing little items. tax give aways for nascar, for the wind industry, for biodiesel, for movie producers. those ...

It's not just -- >> what do you mean by that? >> pipelines and electricity transmission lines lead to coal plants where there's the most wind and solar. you don't have transmission lines built there. it's not a matter of plucking one piece of a system out and putting a new piece in. you talk about building a whole new system, and it's very hard to sort of compare unit costs when you're talking about that. you're talking about a more holistic view of things. >> i think it's important to point out that with the wind industry we have the production tax credit, which is a credit. it's not a subsid...

Election are between one candidate who accepts of the science of global warming and one who edges on it. but what is the real difference between the policy that we can see, convince me that if i'm a climate voter that my vote is going to matter on tuesday. >> oh, my goodness. mitt romney says that he's going to roll back the requirement that the fuel economy standards of the vehicles which we drive go to 54.5 miles per gallon by the year 2026. if he rolls that back, that's equal to 6 billion metric tons of co 2 going up into the atmosphere, that's one whole year of total co 2 to the united sta...

The president and his number two traded jabs with team romney ryan. all the issues are fair game. from energy and jobs to medicare and wall street. steve handelsman has more. >> they're clashed over energy. barack obama in iowa and mitt romney in ohio with coal miners, slamming the president for toughening regulations. >> for you don't believe in coal or energy independence for america, then say it. >> wind is one alternative the president pushed. >> the the wind industry supports 7,000 jobs here in iowa. that's worth fighting for. that's what's at stake right now. >> an election about big cho...

Wind industry supports 6,000 to 7,000 jobs. the president says governor romney does not want to extend tax credits in favor of giving breaks to oil companies and it enjoys massive profits. the president says the governor needs a reality check. >> if he knew what you were doing he knew 20% of iowa's electricity comes from wind. it was powering our homes and factories and businesses in a way that is clean and renewable. in fact, over the past four years we have doubled the amount of electricity america generates for wind. across america we biffle -- we built the equivalent of 12 new hoover dams ...