Pelosi: Agriculture will have a role in shaping climate change bill

AgricultureOnline.com
Dan Looker
Successful Farming magazine Business Editor
6/08/2009, 10:30 AM CDT

At a visit to a Des Moines, Iowa middle school Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), said that the climate change bill recently passed by the Energy and Commerce Committee will go through more changes before coming up for a vote in the full House.

"The Energy and Commerce Committee was one step and now it will go to other committees and agriculture is very important," Pelosi told Agriculture Online at a press conference after a short public meeting with education officials to highlight the role that federal stimulus legislation is playing in schools.

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