On the recordJanuary 21, 2010
It is very clear that Senator Murkowski's amendment is causing a ripple throughout the country. It is causing a firestorm of protests among doctors, scientists, and business leaders who believe it is a bad precedent to overturn science. It is hard for me to believe in this century that is what we would be doing. I wish to have printed in the Record some editorials from various newspapers. One is from the New York Times dated 2 days ago, ``Ms. Murkowski's Mischief.'' They are basically saying, which I thought was interesting: Senator Lisa Murkowski's home State of Alaska is ever so slowly melting away, courtesy of a warming planet. Yet few elected officials seem more determined than she to throw sand in the Obama administration's efforts to do something about climate change. It is unbelievable. They go on to say if she chooses to overturn this endangerment finding, ``rescinding the finding would repudiate years of work by America's scientists and public health experts.'' I think this is important. The work that has been done leading up to this endangerment finding was done by Republican and Democratic administrations alike. To just throw it out with this resolution makes no sense at all.
