Obama administration officials grateful for early spring

“The good news is spring is coming earlier and earlier [thanks] to climate change.” — An anonymous White House official, on the prospect of the Senate debating a climate and clean energy bill in the spring of 2010.

“The good news is spring is coming earlier and earlier [thanks] to climate change.”

— An anonymous White House official, on the prospect of the Senate debating a climate and clean energy bill in the spring of 2010.

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