If you look at what happened in early 2010 that might explain why it suddenly ended, you find a Supreme Court decision called Citizens United that allowed unlimited corporate money, unlimited billionaire money to bombard our politics.
Senator Whitehouse links the decline of bipartisan climate action to the Citizens United decision.
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