[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 82 (Wednesday, June 19, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H3677]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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                             GLOBAL WARMING

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, global warming is upon us. The glaciers are 
melting, the West is on fire due to prolonged drought, the tundras of 
Alaska are melting and the White House has now confirmed this. It has 
issued a report that says global warming is occurring and we are 
responsible for it. But what does the White House say they are going to 
do about it? Nothing. They say we have just got to get used to it.
  I was talking to a good young man, my son, who is a sophomore at 
Bainbridge High School, who says that the 15- and 16-year-old kids 
understand science enough to know that we have got to do something 
about global warming. We urge the President to get with the Bainbridge 
kids, the high school sophomores, who know we have got to do something 
about this problem. America deserves it and we ought to have it.

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