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• Senate Climate Markup Set for Tuesday but Will Any Republicans Show?

  All 7 Republicans plan to boycott to delay U.S. climate bill progress, and none have stated they would ultimately vote for bill.

  Boxer plans to move forward:

  For her part, Boxer insisted that she would not back down from the markup, and she even opened the door to alternative approaches for moving the bill, including the use of Senate Rule 14 that allows the majority to discharge legislation out of a committee and bring it directly to the floor.

  "We're going forward," Boxer said. "We're going to do our job. We're going to use every tool at our disposal to get this done."

There is a romantically tragic Chinese legend about the Baiji dolphin. The Reader's Digest version says the Baiji was the reincarnation of an ancient princess who was drowned by her father after refusing to marry a man who she did not love.

In the modern era, the Baiji is one of only four species of dolphins who have been known to live exclusively in fresh water. It swam the Pacific ocean 25 million years ago, then migrated to China’s Yangtze River 20 million years ago, according to fossil records.

This species, which was able to survive 25 million years on planet earth, was no match for the environmental misconduct of mankind.

In fact, this is the first time a dolphin or whale has been wiped out due to the meddling of humans.