Jared Huffman: “From the Representative of the northernmost district on the coast of California, I really do want to thank my friend…”

“From the Representative of the northernmost district on the coast of California, I really do want to thank my friend from southern California for yielding to me. San Diego and Orange Counties are so well-served by his intelligent, principled leadership, and especially on this issue, this existential crisis that we are trying to confront of global climate change. The gentleman's leadership on this issue has certainly been noted. Madam Speaker, our leader, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, did a very unusual thing in reaching out and choosing a freshman Member of Congress, and it is because of Mr. Levin's background and clarity on these issues that she put him on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, where I am proud to serve with him. So I thank the gentleman so much for that leadership. And, Madam Speaker, he is doing more than that. He is putting great bills into the hopper. He is leading this debate this evening. So we are well served with Mr. Levin's leadership in southern California. Now, one of the previous speakers mentioned that we are gathered here on the eve of this global climate strike tomorrow. Tens of thousands of students all over the United States, 800 different sites, are working in harmony with 156 other countries where young people are doing the same thing worldwide. This is a week of action. These are high school kids, and even younger in some cases. They understand what is at stake here.…”