CNSNews.com - Senators Willing to Scale Back Energy Bill

CNSNews.com - Senators Willing to Scale Back Energy Bill:

But the road to compromise looked anything but clear. Kerry, D-Mass., and Lieberman, I-Conn., said that during the meeting with Obama the president insisted the bill must include a price on the carbon emissions blamed for global warming - something that's anathema to many Republicans.

And when Republicans left the meeting they lambasted the approach, calling it a 'national energy tax' they could never accept."