Washington Post:

Senators propose cutting greenhouse gas emissions 17% by 2020
3 release ‘framework’ of bill to send message to climate conference
The trio of senators who are trying to write a bill to cap greenhouse gas emissions released a “framework” Thursday that they had agreed to.
It showed they had not agreed to very much.
Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said the framework was intended to send a message to delegates in Copenhagen for international climate talks. “The movement for climate change legislation in the United States Senate is alive and well,” Lieberman said.
But the message was still fairly general: The senators revealed few details about their plans and said they were negotiable.
“The reason there’s not specifics [being released] today is very specifically because of the process that we are honoring,” Kerry said. He said the three would need to talk to Senate committee chairmen about their ideas and did not think a bill would be voted on until spring. “We don’t want to jump ahead of the committee process.”

Wow. Way to send a crystal-clear message to Kyopenhagen.