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On the recordFebruary 28, 2019
Mr. President, now I want to address two more issues related to this topic. First, are the reports that the President is planning to create a panel of cherry-picked scientists who question the severity of climate change to ``counter'' the scientific consensus. I mentioned these reports earlier this week, but I want to update my friends in this Chamber that Democrats are in the process of preparing legislation that would defund this fake climate panel. We hope this legislation, like our resolution, will eventually be bipartisan because it shouldn't be partisan to oppose a group of handpicked climate deniers spreading the fossil fuel industry's propaganda under the imprimatur of the White House. It shouldn't be partisan to oppose the administration's setting up its own Orwellian Ministry of Truth on climate change. So I urge my friends on the other side of the aisle who believe in climate science to sign on to our legislation once we have it ready.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

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