More Democratic progress

This may not go anywhere, but I was so thrilled to hear about it!

Pelosi creates committee to deal with global warming
SF Chronicle
Friday, January 19, 2007

Washington -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi created the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on Thursday, a group she hopes will coordinate work among the eight committees with jurisdiction over the issue and U.S. energy policy and help come up with sweeping legislation by early summer. The panel won't write legislation, Pelosi said. Instead, it is designed to focus attention on the issues by holding hearings around the country and get the eight committees to work together. "It's a very important issue,'' Pelosi said in announcing the panel. ''It says to the American people we are about the future.''