The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Thursday passed a sweeping climate bill co-authored by Chairman Barbara Boxer and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., with no Republicans participating in the 10-1 vote.
Republicans, who opposed the bill, boycotted drafting sessions called by Boxer this week and were absent from the room. Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware was the lone Democrat to miss the vote.
Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, voted against. He said his main concerns with the bill, primarily the 2020 target of a 20 percent cut in domestic greenhouse gas emissions and worries about the impact to farmers, prevented him from backing the bill.
Still, Baucus said, he would work for a "meaningful, balanced" climate bill on the Senate floor.
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