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On the recordFebruary 16, 2017
Madam President, a quick comment about climate change: No one--no one--has denied that the climate is consistently changing. All the Scriptural evidence, historical evidence, and archeological evidence says, yes, it has always been changing and always will change. But what they are trying to infer is that because of that, then the world is coming to an end because of what? Manmade gases--anthropogenic gases--manmade gases. That is what the real hoax is, but I am not going to waste my time on that. However, I will next week, I might add. The Senator from New York talked about the fact that we have an attorney general who has sued the EPA many times. Let me just remind everyone--and I don't think I have heard this on the floor, but I have watched Democrat after Democrat after Democrat come by and just brutally attack Scott Pruitt, a guy I know to be an honorable man. I don't know of one attorney general who has served with him who doesn't agree with that. In terms of suing, I think it is important to understand that almost every Democrat who has stood up and said disparaging things about Scott Pruitt and talked about the fact that he has sued the EPA countless times--their attorney general from their State has also sued the EPA. I will read the States: The attorneys general from Wisconsin, Colorado, Ohio, Nevada, Indiana, New Mexico, Missouri, Florida, Michigan, and Montana, all have Democratic Members of the Senate who have been criticizing Scott Pruitt.…
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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