President Barack Obama’s climate czar Carol Browner said Friday there is no way Congress will be able to pass a bill on climate change before the climate talks in Copenhagen in December. Browner was asked about climate legislation during a forum organized by The Atlantic magazine.

Question: “At this point, what do you expect Congress to give you, if anything, to bring to Copenhagen in December?”

Carol Browner: “Well, obviously, we’d like to be, you know, through the process. That’s not going to happen. I think we would all agree that, likely, that you’d have the bill signed by the President, comprehensive energy, by the time we go early in December, it’s not likely. But we could be out of committee, certainly, in the Senate. We could perhaps be headed to the floor. There could be a leadership bill out there. You know, we will go to Copenhagen managed with whatever we have.”