Tom Udall: “Thank you very much. And I very much appreciate the gentleman yielding. Let me say, first of all, to Congressman…”

“Thank you very much. And I very much appreciate the gentleman yielding. Let me say, first of all, to Congressman Cleaver, you told a story that I think we hear over and over again about the effects around the world. You told it for Greenland. You took a trip up there that I think is going to go down in history as a turning point. The Speaker of the House, you were with the Speaker, Nancy Pelosi. She takes this trip to Greenland, she sees this ice cap, sees what's going on and has said to the United States House of Representatives that she is going to do something about this, put it on the schedule and move it forward. So all of us, I think, Representative Inslee, are very gratified by that because we feel that there has been a sea change here in the House. We have gone from just a few short years ago ignoring this issue to now where the Speaker says we are going to do something about this, and that is very gratifying. I would like to point out, too, I think that ice cap is in some places two miles thick. And so people should realize when we are talking about a two-mile thick ice cap, if that thing melts, it raises the oceans, and many of our costal areas in America would be under water. But, Jay Inslee, I agree with you very much. We don't want to paint doom and gloom. This is about optimism. And you have been an incredible leader on energy.”