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Here is an excerpt from House of Representatives Republican Leader John Boehner’s historic speech this evening to that body opposing the cap-and-tax legislation.

Junk-science-buster Steve Milloy calls this a “must-see video.”

The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Myron Ebell gets it exactly right when he reports - -

“Boehner’s speech was greeted with prolonged applause by Republicans who had filled their side of the House.  It was a powerful performance and makes apparent how limited oratory is in the House by the severe time limits.  It seems to me that Boehner rose to the real magnitude of what Waxman-Markey would do and made the Democrats look small, ridiculous, and shameful.”

Here is today’s very close record vote on the House approval of the Waxman-Markey energy tax.

Now it is up to all of us in Maryland and Virginia effectively to hold accountable our House members who voted, in Boehner’s words,  for “the most profound piece of legislation to come to this floor in a hundred years” and did so without reading this extensive and complex grant of regulatory and taxing power.

We should begin by confronting these errant members who (presumably) will be in their districts over July 4th. Ask them whether the founders would approve of this kind of law-making. You might, of course, have to explain who the founders were.

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