Political Quotes

“Madam President, I thank my colleague, and I appreciate being here with my two colleagues from Wyoming and also Idaho. Let me start by applauding Senator Murkowski for her strong leadership on this issue, and I stand squarely behind her effort. To summarize what has already been laid out, the EPA has released findings that, No. 1, human carbon emissions contribute in a significant way to global warming, and, No. 2, global warming, which has been going on for about 10,000 years now, is an endangerment to humans. The EPA's foundation for its proposal relies on the assumption that both of these findings are the truth. Madam President, I was sorely disappointed but not too surprised when I learned the EPA based its ``findings'' almost entirely on the work done by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-- or the IPCC. I have no problem with much of the science produced by the IPCC scientists, but I have a real problem with the way that science is summarized by the political leaders at the IPCC and by the conclusions drawn by those same political leaders in the IPCC's Summary for Policymakers, which is not a science document. It becomes immediately evident that the EPA relies heavily on these political summaries and conclusions rather than actual science produced by the IPCC because we now have abundant proof that a wide gulf exists between what the science indicates and what the political leaders of the IPCC pretend that it indicates.…”