Political Quotes

“our colleague from Missouri was not on the floor when I spoke earlier. I want him to have the opportunity to hear some of the concerns that I and a lot of other people in this Chamber and this country have with respect to the request that he is making. So I reserve the right to object, and let me just take a minute or two to again state why that is. Today, the American people face two existential threats to our way of life. No. 1 is the threat to the world order posed not by the Russian people but by Vladimir Putin, their leader. And the other is the threat of climate change to us. We just received from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration an update 2 weeks ago about what it is going to look like in this country in the years to come. We have already seen the sea level rise roughly a foot in the last several decades, and what we are going to see in the years to come is more of the same, only faster. If you add up the GDP of every coastal county in this country--from the east coast, the gulf coast, the west coast, the Great Lakes--it adds up to a GDP that would be making the third largest country in the world. And what we are going to see is a great assault--a continued assault--on those coastal counties, whether it is New Jersey or whether it is Delaware, whether it is Louisiana, California--whatever. In Louisiana, they lose to the sea every 100 minutes a piece of land the size of a football field.…”