the national mining association is working hard against this bill. you are seeing the american farm bureau come out yesterday against the bill could the american petroleum institute is against the bill could some trade groups are fighting the bill. it a lot of conservative groups have a lot of skeptics on the global warming issue. they are trying to stop the bill from moving forward. >> [unintelligible] >> he is on board. he signed up a few days ago that really jolted this debate. we started this week not knowing if the bill was going to reach the floor this week. last weekend, the staff was working hours and hours into the weekend. they came back on monday and tuesday and wrapped up an agreement on a number of key issues. probably the biggest two or three was dealing with the free allowances that will be given out to electrical utility industry. they ended up getting 0.5% that was distributed. another thing that was wanted -- the department of agriculture will be in charge of the offset. that is important for collin peterson because he thinks the fda

some the national mining association, for example, is working hard against this bill. you're seeing the american farm bureau came out yesterday against the bill. the american petroleum institute is against the bill. so some of the bigger trade groups are fighting this bill. a lot of the conservative groups you definitely have a large group of skeptics on the sides of global warming who don't believe that climate change is an issue and they're trying to stop this bill from moving forward. >> is agriculture committee chairman collin peterson onboard? >> he is onboard. he signed up about three days ago in a huge agreement that really jolted this debate forward. we started this week not knowing if this bill was going to reach the floor this week. and over last weekend, staff had kind of been just working hours and hours and hours into the weekend when they came back on monday and tuesday and actually wrapped up an agreement on a number of key issues that the farm state chairman from minnesota, collin peterson had been fighting for, probably the biggest two or three were dea