Cap-and-Trade: Senate Vote
The Senate has not taken a floor vote on cap-and-trade since President Obama took office.
The House-passed Waxman-Markey bill was never seriously considered in the Senate during the 111th Congress. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) failed miserably when they tried to muster support for their cap-and-trade bill: S.1733. Senators Kerry and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) also attempted to pass a cap-and-trade bill but given the bipartisan opposition in the Senate to raising energy taxes, the bill gained no momentum.