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Pelosi Says House to Revisit Climate Plan Based on 2009 Bill

  • Bill with cap-and-trade plan passed House but died in Senate
  • Comments come as Democrats return climate change to agenda
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The U.S. House will take up climate legislation, including a measure based on a bill the body approved last time Democrats were in the majority, said Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“We couldn’t pass in the Senate our climate bill, and we’ll be returning to that,” Pelosi said on Friday at a Trinity Washington University event for MSNBC’s “The Speaker” town hall broadcast.