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Graham: 'The President is Great to Work With'. By Richard Cowan, Reuters, March 10, 2010. "It's rare when a conservative Republican in Congress heaps praise on President Barack Obama, especially in regards to fighting global warming, but Senator Lindsey Graham did just that on Wednesday. The South Carolina lawmaker has, despite opposition from many in his party, worked with Obama and Democrats on a comprehensive energy and environmental bill, winning their support of more government aid for nuclear power and expanded oil and gas drilling. Nuclear power and domestic oil production are at the core of Republican platforms. 'The president has been great to work with on energy and climate,' Graham, a two-term senator, told reporters. 'I want to say this about the administration. They've been very reasonable on offshore drilling and nuclear power and they've been very reasonable at looking at a different way to price carbon.' But for most Republicans in Congress, the concessions won by Graham do not offset the impact of Democratic moves to also impose carbon dioxide pollution controls on utilities, factories and oil refineries."