Santa Fe New Mexican Editorial Warns Bingaman to "Beware of Sneak Attacks"

Jeff Bingaman with John Kerry and Harry Reid

Santa Fe New Mexican - As if congressional Republicans weren't portraying themselves as villains already by toadying to fat cats on whom they can't bear to restore fair tax rates during our national financial crisis, they're also twirling their moustaches on the environmental stage. In the House of Representatives, where they have a 242-193 majority, they've launched a frontal attack on such basic health protections as the Clean Water Act by seeking to block the Environmental Protection Agency from stepping in where state officials cozy up to polluters. In the Senate, the elephants are outnumbered 51-47, so on that side of the Capitol they're clumsily, but threateningly, carrying out guerrilla warfare: On Thursday, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee takes up a couple of bills by chairman Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico. Read full column here: News New Mexico