Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Fitzpatrick for his leadership and jumping in, in his firm term here in the House leadership, on coming to solutions on climate change. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. McNerney), my colleague who I have been working with for a number of years here in the House, a very dedicated Member, especially when it comes to issues of science and climate change. Mr. McNERNEY. Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Lipinski for his leadership on this. Mr. Speaker, I want to talk a little bit about climate. We know that climate is changing, and we have seen it. In California, we had horrific wildfires that claimed 40 lives and destroyed thousands of structures. We have seen hurricanes more frequently, more devastating, and more powerful than ever before. So the effects are there. We see it happening. Now, the thing that we are faced with is that there is a significant section of people that deny climate change. You can sort of see why they are denying it. I mean, if something is in your interest, you are going to be able to talk yourself into just about anything. The big benefit of denying climate change is that we can continue to use fossil fuels. If you are a company that uses fossil fuels or produces fossil fuels, yeah, this is what you want. But there are costs of denial, and the costs of denial are clear. We are seeing weather. We just talked about that. We are seeing health effects.…”