Political Quotes

“This amendment would prohibit funds for the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases. In my part of the country, we recognize what greenhouse gases are. We have to contain methane at many landfills that have let that stuff belch out into the atmosphere. The satellites that take photos of the Earth from a distance can show us that when we weren't conscious of greenhouse gases, we were breaking through the ozone layer, and we have been able to heal that over time with concerted effort. Those who care to know about greenhouse gases have plenty of evidence around us. We know that the work of this particular group is crucial to making sure the government accounts for the potential impacts of government actions on the climate. Now, I just left a group of farmers back in Ohio, and I can tell you that their fields are being washed out because of added rainfall at a level they have never seen before. We have the saltwater creeping up the Mississippi River right now. I was just talking to one of the Members on the other side of the aisle yesterday concerned about Baton Rouge and what is happening with the ocean and saltwater coming north. This has never happened before. This is very unusual. Whether it is gases in the air--I think of Canada this past summer. In my part of the country, we never had the kind of fog, I call it, that came from those forest fires down into our region and even made it here to Washington, D.C., and down to the panhandle.…”