Political Quotes

“Mr. President, thank you very much, and let me first of all congratulate my chairman, Chairman Boxer, Senator Whitehouse, and Senator Schatz for organizing this effort and what we are calling an up-all-night conversation. New Mexico is in the bull's-eye when it comes to climate change. Everyplace else, if it goes up 1 degree, New Mexico and the Southwest go up 2 degrees, so we know we are hit really hard. I am going to talk later in this conversation about all of the impacts. It is clear, forest fires, as my cousin talked about, droughts, huge die-off in terms of trees, extreme rain events after fires, and flooding are devastating. But New Mexico has been at the forefront of the solution. When it comes to renewable energy, we are out there-- solar energy, wind, bio, advanced biofuels such as algae. We are working in the direction we need all of us to be working in together in this country, to make sure we orient toward renewables and tackle this problem. I will be able to expand on this later. I would yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Hampshire.”