Such a policy would differ from the climate bill that passed the House in June 2009.
When the President proposed that Congress take up a climate bill along with health-care legislation and, on top of that, regulatory reform, he made an enormous gamble.
While we have yet to send a climate bill to the President's desk, I will continue to work towards passage of comprehensive legislation.
This is a climate bill you can love.
As he noted in his speech, a year ago the House passed "a strong and comprehensive energy and climate bill."
Many viewed this strategy as the only way significant forest protection provisions would be inserted into the Waxman-Markey climate bill.
The Administration's hope for a climate bill has everything to do with its gingerly embrace of nukes.
President Obama, in a news conference Tuesday, cited geothermal power as part of the "clean energy transformation" that a climate bill now before Congress could bring about.
A combined energy and climate bill is expected to be considered by the full Senate this fall.
He uttered not one word about global warming, a comprehensive climate bill, or his regulatory attempts to reduce carbon .