Political Quotes

“I want to say that I share the gentleman's concern about the issue of climate change and about the impact that it may have on our Nation. My committee held three hearings on the working group reports, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, released earlier this year. The Committee on Science and Technology is marking up a bipartisan bill tomorrow authored by Mr. Udall and Mr. Inglis, the different Mr. Udall, H.R. 906, to restructure the U.S. Global Change Research Program to provide more policy-relevant information to Congress and to regional organizations, State and local governments, and to businesses and organizations that are developing and implementing adaptation mitigation strategies. The Global Change Resource Program authorized in the Global Change Research Act of 1990 has guided our government's climate science agenda for the past 17 years. It has had many successes. Much of the research that has been summarized in the IPCC reports emerge from this program, and I commend the gentleman for producing a bill that makes additional money available for climate change. I fully support the allocation of an additional $50 million for the important task of developing adaptation and mitigation strategies. We need to lessen the impact of climate change on our Nation.”