When reading The Free Press June 27, article (Walz votes for climate bill) I found it to be a factual and balanced piece of reporting, considering the information available to the reporter at that time. But I think Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod are either misguided or disingenuous in their suggestion “...that the Senate would move with the House.”

The House is so politically partisan that if the majority party leadership wants a bill to pass it is almost certain to pass, regardless of the effects the details of the bill might have on the country as a whole. Do you really think any House member read the approximate 1,500 page bill, let alone studied and/or analyzed its contents in the very brief time they were given before the Friday vote? The chief sponsor of the bill, Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), admitted he had not read “all of it.” That begs the questions: What did he read? What didn’t he read?

Did Waxman, or those that voted for the bill, know that the day before the House was to vote on the bill it was revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency had suppressed a March 9, 2009 internal report challenging the entire global warming myth? I think the answer to that last question is they should have, because on Thursday several House members held a press conference discussing the existence of the report. But as many might expect, the mainstream media almost completely avoided reporting on the existence and content of the report. What happened to the Obama Administration’s promise of “openness” and “transparency” and “full disclosure?” Who is censoring the science of climate change now?

For those of us who tire of being played for suckers by glib politicians and believe the House bill is a fraud based on a hoax, there is still hope. The bill barely passed the House even though there is a significant Democrat majority in the House. Senators, although certainly partisan, are not always as partisan as House members when it comes to what is best for our country. The Senate is also usually more deliberative than the House.

By the time they take-up the bill the real long-term economic effects of the bill will have been further analyzed. Moreover, the building scientific skepticism over so-called human caused climate change — global warming — should become evident to anyone who is paying attention, hopefully including senators. In the meantime, make your voices heard!!

Bob Jentges is part of a Free Press team of readers asked to comment more frequently on issues of the day. He considers himself a conservative.

The electronic version of this article includes the link to the New York Times story reporting the EPA report and the report itself.