Senator Paul's Resolution Rejected

• {Washington, D.C.}...By a 56-41 vote, the Democrat-controlled Senate on Thursday rejected a resolution by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky to block a regulation intended to curb power plant pollution that blows downwind into other states. Paul said the step was needed to rein in what he called the Obama administration's overzealous job-killing approach to environmental protection. Paul said the resolution was simply asking that the clean air regulations already on the books stay in place and that we do not make the regulations so onerous that they put utility plants out of business, resulting in an inability to supply electricity in this country. Unlike normal legislation, which needs 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, his resolution needed a simple majority to pass, but six Republicans voted against it.