Subject: Fwd: Politico: Schumer: Carbon tax has a chance if Clinton wins
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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 21:10:07 -0400

Policy, is there any chance we go near such a proposal or can we nip this
in the bud tonight?

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From: *Ian Sams* <[email-masked]>
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Subject: Politico: Schumer: Carbon tax has a chance if Clinton wins
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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/schumer-carbon-tax-has-a-chance-if-clinton-wins-119352.html?hp=rc2_4

Schumer: Carbon tax has a chance if Clinton wins

By *ELANA SCHOR* <http://www.politico.com/reporters/ElanaSchor.html>

6/23/15 7:28 PM EDT

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) outlined a path Tuesday for Hillary Clinton to
enact a carbon tax if the Democrats prevail in the 2016 elections.

Schumer, the Senate Democrats’ leader-in-waiting, said that a Clinton
presidency and the return of his party to the Senate majority in 2017 could
pave the way for lawmakers to enact a carbon tax to help fund the
government.

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The mere suggestion of a new fee on the emissions blamed for climate
change, however, could become a political headache for Clinton and other
Democrats, and it’s routinely dismissed by Republicans. The Obama
administration disavowed the idea after the 2012 election.

“If Hillary wins and we take back the Senate, I believe many of our
Republican friends will say we’ve been starving the government for
revenues,” Schumer told an environmental event on Capitol Hill, “but many
of them will not be for raising rates.”

Noting that half a dozen European oil and gas CEOs came out in favor of a
price on carbon this month, and that ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson has
expressed openness to the idea, “you might get a compromise” carbon tax in
that event, Schumer added.

“I think in 2017 people of both parties might come to that as the best way
to fund the government,” he said.

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Schumer’s comments came at an event hosted by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
(D-R.I.), who recently unveiled a carbon tax proposal at the conservative
American Enterprise Institute that would offset the funds raised by cutting
corporate taxes and returning rebates to the public.

The New York Democrat hinted at the potential controversy of his carbon-tax
prediction by first asking if his remarks the event, which was streamed
live online, would be “on the record” for the press.

Schumer also vowed that Democrats would successfully defend President
Barack Obama’s landmark climate change rules for power plants from GOP
attacks, saying, “We will hold that — they’ll need 60 votes to change
things, and we’re not going to let that happen.”

Three Democrats considered swing votes on any Republican bid to unravel
Obama’s climate rules, Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) and
Joe Donnelly (Ind.), face reelection in 2018.

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