Topic: John Kerry

Kerry, Lieberman craft scaled back climate bill

A scaled-back climate change bill that focuses largely on mandating carbon emissions reductions on electric power utilities has been drafted by U.S. Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman in the hopes of winning Senate passage in coming weeks.. Also, it has not ...

The Times They Have AChanged

The author of the article discusses U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama's speech at the U.S. Democratic Party National Convention, and gives his reasons why he considered it a strong speech. The author points out that even conservative politician Pat Buchanan called it ...
Kerry backs Specter in Pa. Senate primary; vouches for his character amid 'Swiftboat' flapMassachusetts Sen. John Kerry is backing Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania's contested May 18 Senate primary.The 2004 Democratic presidential nominee on Monday praised Specter as a "fighter and a ...

US senators to unveil climate bill

Two US senators announced they will unveil long-stalled legislation Wednesday to set up the first nationwide plan to fight climate change, despite a key Republican's withdrawal from their effort.Democratic Senator John Kerry and Independent Senator Joe Lieberman predicted in a joint statement ...

EIA: climate bill analysis to take up to 8 wks

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Energy Information Administration will take up to eight weeks to analyze the stalled Senate climate bill after receiving most of its details from the office of Senator John Kerry, a spokesman said on Thursday.Elements of the bill ...

US Senator Kerry: Climate bill not 'dead'

Democratic US Senator John Kerry said late Monday that efforts to craft sweeping, comprehensive US legislation to combat climate change were still "very much alive.""We're still pushing, we're still talking, we're still fighting, it's very much alive -- and I won't quit," ...

US Senators to unveil climate bill next week

The US Senate's two principal authors of legislation to battle climate change said Tuesday they were putting the last touches on their bill and hoped to unveil it next week."I feel very optimistic about the progress that we're making. I think that ...

US wants Syria to act as key peace player

President Barack Obama's administration considers Syria a key player in Washington's efforts to revive the stalled Middle East peace process, US Senator John Kerry said in Damascus on Thursday."Syria is an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region," Kerry, ...
Democratic US Senator John Kerry on Wednesday began a visit to the Middle East for talks with top Lebanese and Syrian officials on the stalled Arab-Israeli peace process."We remain extremely hopeful that in the weeks ahead we can find a path to ...

Sarkozy seeks US-French action on climate: Kerry

French President Nicolas Sarkozy told US Senators Tuesday that he hopes for US-French action to "put some pressure" on countries reluctant to battle climate change, one of the lawmakers said."He was very, very clear -- first topic he brought up was the ...