Except this is a complete straw man in the current political reality. Climate change legislation will never get a single Republican vote, and we all know it. And they will never be held accountable for that because the people that vote for them are either uninformed or misinformed about climate change, by the same forces that influence congress!
Legislating is an exercise in compromise. There are plenty of Republicans who would vote for certain elements of climate change legislation in exchange for getting other things they want.
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