EXCERPT: The former Massachusetts senator spent the better part of 2009 and 2010 tucked away in a host of Senate offices, proselytizing on climate change. People who were in the rooms remember Kerry lecturing, haranguing, hectoring, pounding the table, his voice rising as he desperately tried to convey a deep sense of genuine emergency. As a legislative tactic, it failed miserably. Senators have no interest in lectures. Climate change legislation never came close to passage and Kerry left the Senate without a single major legislative achievement in his nearly 30 years in the chamber. He now has the chance to make his mark.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:26:38 +0000
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