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My rep, Heath Shuler, is a Blue Dog Dem...got a message from his office the other day trying to explain why he didn't support the Stimulus Plan. On the menu: Red wine, Blue Dogs, green agenda A tin of Costco lasagna and some red wine may hold the key to solving the climate change debate — at least in the House Democratic Caucus.
Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) has been hosting lasagna dinners in the Methodist House apartment near the Capitol that he shares with Blue Dog Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) in an effort to find common ground in the increasingly tense debate over a cap-and-trade bill.
Welch has been inviting conservative Blue Dogs like Reps. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) and Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.) to meet with more liberal Democrats like Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) to talk about the details of the looming cap-and-trade bill. Some of the more environmentally inclined Democrats joked that they could be called the “Green Dogs.”
Coincidentally, the apartment is the former home of Al Gore’s parents, and Gore went there to write much of his environmental treatise, Earth in the Balance.
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