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On the recordJune 5, 2008
I commend him. This debate has laid strong building blocks for the future. We have worked our way through the issues of the science. We have worked our way through how national security is linked to this subject. We have worked our way through the fact that technology must be encouraged in every possible way to accommodate the capture, transportation, and eventual sequestration of CO2, this greenhouse gas that is affecting the atmosphere. That technology needs a known, dedicated, constant--underline 'constant'--stream of funding. Whatever global climate exchange comes up, eventually the Congress of the United States must put in a clear understanding that we are going to fund and have that funding stream go to provide for the needs of the technology to come up with the answer to this question. Our several States--another building block--each of the States, in its own individual way, is doing things. We commend them.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

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Discussing the importance of technology and funding in addressing climate change.

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