Political Quotes

“My amendment, which I offer along with Mr. Lowenthal and Mr. Peters, would simply remove one of the so-called policy riders from this bill. It is a particularly dangerous policy rider. What my amendment would do is it would strip the bill of a harmful and unrelated restriction that actually would prohibit Federal agencies from assessing the social cost of carbon, meaning Federal agencies would not be able to look at the monetized impact, the actual costs of climate change. They would be forced to deliberately have a blindfold and not be allowed to consider climate change in their planning, just like American businesses do, like States do, like municipalities do, but the Federal Government would be prohibited from even looking at the costs of climate change. According to a recent poll undertaken by Stanford University, 81 percent of American people have looked at the science and agree that climate change is at least in part caused by humans; 74 percent of Americans believe the Federal Government should be working hard to combat climate change, and 71 percent of the American people expect that they will be hurt personally or impacted by climate change. Madam Speaker, climate change is not some fallacy. It is not some evil plot by leftwing or rightwing extremists. It is simply science. Climate change is what major corporations like Coca-Cola and Nike have called an economically disruptive force that needs to be addressed.…”