McConnell says that Kerry-Lieberman climate bill ‘essentially written by BP’
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June 9, 2010
…"On the one hand, BP did have substantial input into the Kerry bill," said Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign at the Center for Auto Safety. BP, other oil companies, the Edison Electric Institute and other industry groups "submitted much language and many ideas. Some are probably recognizable in the current bill. … But I don’t think it is accurate to say that BP essentially wrote a major part of the bill."…