A controversial environmental bill was moved out of committee this week and is headed for debate on the floor of the Senate.
Despite Republican protests that the bill will negatively affect families, members of the Environmental and Public Works Committee voted 11-1 to approve the plan.
Stuart Shepard, director of digital media with Focus on the Family Action, said Republicans on the committee had the right idea.
"Part of what's significant about that 11-1 vote is that it does not include the seven Republicans who wanted nothing to do with this and even walked out on one of the hearings," he said. "and the one 'No' vote is from a Democrat."
Similar laws in Europe have seen only limited success in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and cost billions.
"So far, there's been no hard scientific evidence connecting human emissions of carbon dioxide to global temperature," Shepard said, "but in order to make this vain attempt to control the temperature, they're willing to tank the U.S. economy."
Republicans are calling for additional study of the measure, but Democrats call that a "waste of taxpayer dollars."
