Their priorities:
US House Republicans kill climate change committee
US President Barack Obama's Republican foes in the House of Representatives said Wednesday they were disbanding the chamber's committee on battling global warming, calling it a waste of money.
Democrats immediately assailed what they branded the "very disappointing" decision to dismantle the Select Committee on Global Warming, which did not have the power to approve legislation.
"We have pledged to save taxpayers' money by reducing waste and duplication in Congress," said a spokesman for Republican House speaker-designate John Boehner, Michael Steel.
The committee "was a clear example, and it will not continue in the 112th Congress," he told AFP by email.
Waste? You want to talk about waste? How about the billions in taxpayer subsidies that Republicans are funneling to big oil companies, billions that we should be using to free ourselves from our dangerous addiction to fossil fuels? These guys are driving our national agenda in exactly the wrong direction. And big oil is riding shotgun.