White House Rhetoric May Signal Climate-Bill Surge - NYTimes.com

White House Rhetoric May Signal Climate-Bill Surge - NYTimes.com: "And as long as lawmakers retain a price on carbon emissions, Aldy said, Obama remains willing to compromise.
'He's not strongly wedded that we have to do it this way or that way,' he said. 'But what we have to do is stop sort of arguing with each other, make some progress here in the near term, and do so in a way that is both consistent with promoting our economic recovery agenda while addressing the needs to mitigate our greenhouse gas emissions. And he clearly thinks that's something that's very possible, something that as we work with the Senate that we try to achieve.'"