Political Quotes

“colleagues, I hope you pay attention to this because there are two motions that deal with global warming. The first one is the Boxer motion, and what it says is, we should not enact any global warming legislation until we address the issue of goods imported from nations such as India and China, countries that do not have their own global warming program. So we protect our people and yet we allow global warming legislation to proceed. Senator DeMint's motion is a back-to-the-future motion. He basically says we can do nothing--nothing--until India and China act. This is wrong. We should not be held hostage to the actions of China and India or any other nation when it comes to our own country, when it comes to an issue which is so serious that even the administration, that has been kind of dragging on this, yesterday found that global warming is threatening a beautiful species called the polar bear. We do not want to be held hostage to India and China. Vote aye on the Boxer motion, and no on the DeMint motion. Thank you.”