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RUSH: Robert in Surprise, Arizona. Arizona has some of the greatest names for its cities and towns in the country, like ‘Show Low.\u2019 Show Low, Arizona. This is Surprise, Arizona. It\u2019s Robert. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Robert, west of Phoenix, Rush. Been listening for over 15 years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have a question. How much influence do you think that staffers and lobbyists have over elected officials?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Profound. It is profound. In fact, I read a piece from the Wall Street Journal from 2002 or 2006. Five or six years ago, and it was memos from special interest groups to staff members of senators saying, ‘Oppose this judge and here\u2019s why. Oppose that nomination and here\u2019s why.\u2019 It came from the Alliance for Justice, NARAL, People for the American Way, the ACLU. The staff, particularly Senate staff, are the ones that generally write most of the questions that these people ask, the senators ask. It\u2019s profound. It is pround, the influence that staffers have on elected officials is much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The other day, Waxman says, ‘I don\u2019t have to read it. I just have to vote for it.\u2019 He believed what the scientists say and there was a huge bill that he was the chairman on the committee.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, we had that bite, and I just didn\u2019t have a chance to get to it. Maybe Cookie can get it to me real quickly here before the hour ends. Henry Waxman, who is cosponsor of the cap-and-trade environmental bill that\u2019s going to raise everybody\u2019s taxes. Henry Waxman is a cosponsor with Ed Markey. Waxman was chairing a committee hearing on it. And somebody asked him a specific question about something in the bill, and Waxman said, ‘You expect me to know everything in the bill? You expect me to know everything in the bill? I\u2019ve got staff for that. We don\u2019t want to get distracted here by these inane little questions here about what\u2019s in the bill.\u2019 Cookie will find it, we\u2019ll get it for you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here are the Waxman bites. This was May 20th. This was nine days ago. House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing, Joe Barton from Texas and Henry Waxman have this exchange about the climate bill.<\/p>\n

BARTON: Before I ask the question in counsel, did you know that was in this bill?<\/p>\n

WAXMAN: You asking me?<\/p>\n

BARTON: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

WAXMAN: Well…<\/p>\n

BARTON: Did you read it?<\/p>\n

WAXMAN: I certainly don\u2019t claim to know everything that\u2019s in this bill. I know that we left it to — uh, uh, we, we relied very heavily on the scientists, on the IPCC and others and the consensus that they have that there is a problem of, uh, uh, global warming. It\u2019s having an impact, and that, uh, we need to try to reduce it by the amounts that they think we need to achieve in order to avoid, uh, some of the consequences. That\u2019s what I know, but I don\u2019t know the details.<\/p>\n

BARTON: I\u2019m asking a question.<\/p>\n

WAXMAN: I rely on the scientists.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘I don\u2019t know the details. I don\u2019t claim to know everything that\u2019s in this bill. We left it very heavily with the scientists.\u2019 The scientists, global warming hoaxers wrote cap and trade! Waxman doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s in it. It\u2019s a badge of honor. Don\u2019t trouble me with these things! Now here\u2019s Waxman announcing the reading of the bill, and you\u2019ll hear a speed reader in here as well as Joe Barton from Texas.<\/p>\n

BARTON: The clerk will read the bill.<\/p>\n

SPEED READER: (Unintelligible) matter (unintelligible) by the amendment offered by blank, insert the following, section one, (unintelligible) — Shorten that list? — title be cited as the Energy Production, Innovation, and Conservation Act. The table of contents. Table of contents for the act is as follows. Section 1, short title and table of contests, title one, clean energy standards, section 1.1, federal clean energy standard, title two, American energy, subtitle A, conservation, officially chapter one, tapping in America\u2019s ingenuity, creativity <\/p>\n

HOUSE: (applause) <\/p>\n

SPEED READER: (unintelligible) —<\/p>\n

BARTON: Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. (laughter)<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Barton says, okay, you\u2019re not going to tell us what\u2019s in the bill let\u2019s read it, elites, find out what\u2019s in the cap-and-trade bill, so goes and gets a speed reader with nobody knows what\u2019s in the bill anyway. Just say, ‘Here. Okay, Barton. You want to know what\u2019s in the bill? Try this!\u2019 and Barton just has to give up laughing. And so forth. So don\u2019t know what\u2019s in the bill, scientists wrote it. They\u2019re ‘relying very heavily on the scientists.\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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