Real, meaningful action on climate change is not an academic or theoretical issue anymore.

we are all in this together

The Administration has officially opposed any provisions in the energy bill that would address climate change.

Only with a mandatory set of greenhouse gas emission targets will we make any meaningful progress in winning this crucial war with carbon.

politics is now, and politics is local

climate change poses a very real--and not an imaginary--threat to our environment, to our livelihoods, and to our well-being

Let me say, that there are many of us in the Congress--Democrats, Republicans, and Independents--who were very disappointed that the President turned his back on his campaign commitment to address the problem of CO2 emissions when he took…

concrete action must be taken now if we are to ever address the problem

We are kidding ourselves if we think that a plea for voluntary action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. will accomplish anything.

What Senator Hatch and others are proposing we do is to go down this same path with cloned human embryos.

I would like to remind you that transplant surgeon, and now Senate Majority Leader Frist, made it clear on November 27, 2001, in a Senate floor speech, that cloning does not resolve the tissue rejection issues.

Clearly, the Congress must address this issue during the 108th Congress.